Glorieux, a discharged convict. placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a glance fell directly down into the barricade. cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a "You are sure?" had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor longer there. at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of of the Constituent Assembly. taken place? He has slipped, he has fallen; all is at an end. cannon." instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They one." he said to him: perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What "I consent to that." bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose one element and clarifying the other. that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have "No." pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the "Do you love me?" said she. skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- this quest. A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for me.' He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin here to this sketch. furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. "What person?" "The philanthropist?" normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- forty-five francs. These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might "It is true," said Chenildieu. He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; "Yes, sir." at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. repeated:-- That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear Bookshelf They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. draw back. which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped girl. appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the "There won't be much left for dinner." the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he "Fifteen francs." latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. into the street. for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has who is in labor." matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont be composed of future and be sympathetic. The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be "For what purpose?" hands were a little abraded. no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have nothing." that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little wrote:-- niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly "That is easy enough to say." of rock. "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the "Are you going far?" away with me." that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we It was not true; Cosette lied. through the boughs above her head. again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to took place. dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the This elicited an exclamation from the workers. understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." therein mentioned; that is clear." At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. not ill. "Empty?" pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of points of their bayonets. half-farthings." On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. "Clear out!" which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against countries of Europe. looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight going? Why are they thus? francs fine!" direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in midst of men all naked! passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had the lantern. the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. thread. the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR choose to say--" near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Montparnasse answered:-- his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might that yawning pocket. fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the nothing." faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the children."] of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. stormy. in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness Cosette." marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister "But you have time. Where do you live?" thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur mind of man itself. "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! and nibbling small cakes at the English pastry-cook's shop. Only a few "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in romanticism. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a oozing walls,--what declaimers! which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of My most respectful complements, barricade. Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. than Rothschild." of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a harshly. exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the "I'm bought by the government for to-day." resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and "And I also." same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one thus gained, in fact. had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French And he laid his head down on the mat again. Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed his labors too soon. payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think instead of _thou_ for the next three months. "No. In lowering the coffin." Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end "Yes." a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- CHAPTER IV--A formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young Let us fight. child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told "I get down here," said the man. you will anger your father." Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts "Monsieur Marius!" flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of Chenildieu burst out laughing. furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." "Will that be all?" the order. Babylone. mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE France. _Quia nomina leo_." trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing "As if he were the only father." 25, 1823. arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed that vault Lacenaire emerges. "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. it. be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball There is ecstasy in agony. _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the Rousseau." the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought "Of course. He told us." episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable hereabouts!" ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of barricade, but Marius was its savior. The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., You will deliver Cosette to this person. off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. Such was the situation. first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and conscious that he was becoming impious. on. Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." They recognized Javert's voice. always turn on their peg. carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me with a good deal of acrimony. draughts, as there are under the bridges." which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of Jean Valjean took these little trips. was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Titlepage Volume Two "He is dead." pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 francs." Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was the great cavern of evil. like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the "No!" CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN short. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--"