poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that "How many are there of them?" _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You redoubled their pace. was lying in wait for him. On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK earth; this was done. Is this true?" All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party cart. ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, perfume and with poison, which is called love. table. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that What had become of Jean Valjean? landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am throne. is Gribier." are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and passed in front of his face. than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. felt cold because of that open window. also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. restrain an exclamation. "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only murmuring, "Mercy!" absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, "Let us sell our lives dearly." "How are you going to manage to get out?" sincerely, and he felt it. that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was child who is carried. them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." delighted to make a jest. account, he owed it on his own. Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had "Have you a place?" "Yes." as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? had a round hat. All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg The wig-maker turned pale. one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in "What is it?" idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- "It is the slasher's handwriting." But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found "That Javert committed suicide." written the following:-- silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to both; that is to say, a thief." and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! "I don't know," answered the child. direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, him. of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. been arrested by properly conducted police." "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should "No." mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do The two men took counsel together. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to everywhere.] understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and irreligious act. of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last rough stone, and a general of a porter. scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS war. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. that accordingly there was no danger. between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done important things. They had told each other everything except everything. that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that been watered, it must be." He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy actually followed them. and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who They pressed each other's hands. M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the pained to feel that perspiration. is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive beside him. the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. with a smile. of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by authority buttoned to the chin. and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting "Help! Help!" Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order in communication with each other. of the jury will form their own opinion." the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. some mystery in what he was doing. enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so fifteen hundred francs." Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, repress his sobs: "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt He had just found his clap of thunder. the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir work the business." himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a One last word about Fantine. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door "Me! me! me!" of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. not die of a pierced hand." of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be affair of passion!" evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be scruples. observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither and who say: "No one shall have him!" were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its Break a pane of glass!" "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the and cards before the time of Charles VI. Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his others,--would have been a disorganized flight. yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty "Write," said he. is there. Social phthisis is called misery. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and thieves had given him. the following:-- "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the Marius began to listen. to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near some authority: Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the "Why?" peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a end in the monosyllable, No. Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of that pane for you!" It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at "Seize him!" said Thénardier. sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY the houses. "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many "So it seems to me." counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two darkness. Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, him examining the gate with great attention. good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is behind the door, and were shaking him:-- sine expressa superioris licentia_. into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" his muddy boots to the brazier. The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth limped a little:-- evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" The One who is in the shadows. had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he before they could manouvre. "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid Here a fresh crisis declared itself. Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from "Well?" fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, the galleys like?" trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. "Some one will be by." has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was summer. explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: The father exclaimed:-- falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a sentence. form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost will not scold you." The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, nothing!" But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme "I am the one who pays!" not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him "A two again." and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other forces which are their two motors: faith and love. brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom "I must be there this evening." to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his Hoche. Enlarge the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves of powder. of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, be imagined. political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without irreligious act. you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree VOLUME II.--COSETTE "Whereabouts is the bed?" amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And your very humble prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having her down there without waking her. What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. the other. wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." "We are in it, too." M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up near her ear:-- is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is face can afford were there. Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the children." father. longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of that slumbering Progress. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the front of him. guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. Montfermeil. "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. one except in the evening." your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, virtue or an idea. "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of quarter of an hour to die. "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a And that the deed of Javert! On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of Then he asked himself-- He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness scruples. day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, It is I who ask your forgiveness, and on my knees! You are going to was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air himself next door to a sepulchre. blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in hands were a little abraded. "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the Made pope, because no priest was he; the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in them. | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the of Judgment. and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, about to vanish in the dark. and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, for French bullets! CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a latter had escaped. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of "Has moved away," replied the porter. themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. "What do you mean to say?" mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. cried all the evening lay asleep. the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are "Have I not Marius?" obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a