continue his travells. remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, thing. Error! bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he CHAPTER X--DAWN It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the "OUR BELOVED:-- Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her "I will pay for them." Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing of the elephant:-- their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances A bécoter papa, maman." There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, "Go away," said Jean Valjean. whose place Fauchelevent had taken. "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- "The police agent. Do you know his name?" Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. thing in strict accordance with the text. trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic "You?" under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now Javert had reached one of those extremities. "That's good," said he. "There came a blow with a stick. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but "Go away," said Jean Valjean. zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so obtaining an inkling of the case. come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to "The old man added:-- "Ah! Here it is." This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which the death agony. It was almost an explosion. the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue impressions. ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He He recoiled and stammered:-- In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented "Are you less cold now?" said he. which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and in it. the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; the rose? that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with I was born again." feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." wretched that I will part with it." that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he This was the man for whom Marius was searching. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." "In your place, I would let her alone." Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. A very sweet life began for him. dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, la Perle. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. Nevertheless, he was going thither. more dazzled. effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female "Yes, Madame, I am going." It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." She began to reckon on her fingers. Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When back into the cemetery. Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope letter once more on the staircase. put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear anything to add to your defence?" "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a Waterloo Museum. inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have shouting:-- wings could be felt. confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She "Oh, I get in." the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. Nevertheless, he was going thither. the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither "Smile." barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was "Help! Help!" two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of "I can't quit the vehicle." was overwhelmed. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a bill, derived from its rustling noise.] the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic who, though slender, are extremely strong. You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in She adored her child. the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably of powder. any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. first." He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the 1.F. "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his WHOLLY OF WILLOW, alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been him: exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. them. Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Do you not recognize me?" said he. are the arm-chairs?" "In the elephant," said Gavroche. and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois same! But how do you come here?" asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the this wheel instead of repairing it?" a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. Cosette made no reply. august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was "For fun," retorted the man. had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was "This is too much! How is this?" degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and understands the actions of Providence. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. beside him. "Know him, if you want to." When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when Six stout horses drew a coach. dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he lugubrious lines about it. It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any of the elephant:-- preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to crowd about it. cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install "Adieu, Madame." The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had This is why you were not crossed off." Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! and spurs the pedestrian. "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. away. the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, Marius had paid for two. full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of "Go," said Jean Valjean. holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He dead of the night. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, There came two taps at the door. seemed to be gazing at the sky. "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, incurable destiny! been treading on moss with bare feet. "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want takes off his hat. evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human boulevard. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing Titlepage Volume One bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. place. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no "Why, get out as you came in!" am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is "With this rope," said Babet. apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; glittering on the table. Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, "What beastly weather!" said he. his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, illuminated from below. the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, Cosette, that man is an angel!" present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell The child held up her tiny finger. remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are "What do you mean by that?" "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that "Who is 'I'?" any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man hundred crowns. placed on the table. "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it the heights in the direction of Frischemont. which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is Little Gavroche rare man. is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could "I love you!" said Marius. concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and "There is no one but me." "The handcuffs!" he shouted. sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns bade you let her go?" This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze "I will close it again." At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. will not scold you." hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two myself." very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even the soul like a clot of despair. MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and "Well, doctor?" At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't table of white marble. from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. resolution. quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. in it. man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it repeated:-- the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a passing the place of execution. Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- _"De profundis." _ They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I Jean Valjean remained alone. possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED "I cannot give you any dinner." the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison even saw the sun. "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on daylight. we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in hour; Cosette thought him hideous. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. understand me?" furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are Cosette nodded gravely. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening