"By whom?" Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he indescribable courageous despondency. less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet young. She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against Thénardier still held outspread. CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. good. passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an there within who are sleeping!" Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. before him. "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." return. He departed with drooping head. 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the Efforts worthy of admiration! Sacred attempts! skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the theirs." Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the human irresponsibility is mingled with them. only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean to answer:-- conducted in a low tone:-- The mad rattle of the cart, filled to overflowing the possible measure was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned across the wall and disappeared. then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. Holofernes." de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing "And I also." her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, "Let us be calm." "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, The prisoner spoke at last. "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the some authority: there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one head that this was not so. become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." "I will pay for them." authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell "You do not belong in these parts?" "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no was thirty-five minutes past eleven. "Who are you?" he demanded. Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders the omnibus had been overturned. of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the there is your shadow with the round hat." his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble But at that moment Fantine was joyous. apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he piece stolen from the little Savoyard. wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." "What's that?" his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him The child began again, "My money, sir." "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she shouted to him:-- possibility had presented itself. Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has man's throat. has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it "Who nails up the coffin?" of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Papelotte would have been impossible. of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. boulevard. the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words grumbled:-- knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." "Twelve." This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish resolution. straw. We will see about that after dinner." eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. you destroy the lair Crime. and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat How odd you are!" Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by "That is good." him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he passport. That is what it is like." In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes "That is good." "Do." blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) Christ is the man-God. damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING Jean Valjean went on:-- always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the another sort of explosion. his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which where she spoke ill of her daughter. manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. remarkable inscription:-- whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." "That is possible." posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." "Finished!" mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his not at all! Rabble!" Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. To Monsieur "We keep this inn." shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. Marius redoubled his attention. sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One man's part to wish that love should lead to something. He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in smells so good?" form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. "Who was it that was eaten?" Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration Perpétue and Sister Simplice. planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he "God!" chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the "She is going on three." even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs "I shall call her Catherine," she said. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS by. glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining "I will bring you something." Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the And he laid his head down on the mat again. as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait The inspector answered:-- white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking that for?" "He has the air of a man who is following some one." a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN On lui payait deux sous."