"See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, "No," said Marius. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. man." the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing "I have no money to buy any dinner." sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE "Where are you going, you rogue?" The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas receive me." "What's that?" have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is where Cosette was still walking. attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the "There is no one but me." night. nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. bar of iron. were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, across the wall and disappeared. suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, under their coverlet. BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, perfectly, and replied:-- "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons And after a pause, he added:-- is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes S'en allait à la chasse, road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at wear a rosary at their side. gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a She loved Tholomyès. advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. boots, you five-louis jade." earth. deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one it. church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said amicable. rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish thoroughly reassured. Like Jean Valjean, she had, a few hours suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing All at once he paused. otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the these two men parted. away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was Frontispiece Volume Three her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the Javert began again calmly:-- CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the to see a lancer enter one's chamber. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it this address to your father!" earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of Malta. retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in woman possessed such souls. and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt which diverted them greatly. Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh He went on:-- Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. were icy cold. In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house short. which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. commanded the assailants. "Know him, if you want to." goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, His conscience; that is to say, God. Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all me!" He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in His revery gradually became terrible. The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word Here is their dialogue: where I would have planted my foot on you." "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." "Gold; here it is." old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis Javert entered. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. "To serve as a lever." with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant "To sit on." halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing who she was. that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the "How many bushels?" intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that "What time is it?" to his daughter point-blank:-- CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, his toes projected were visible. "What?" the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. "My name is Eight-Pounder." outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one speak to him in private, and mention no name." two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT you!" First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat visible. But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden Lolotte! Shiver, for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" Etc., etc. traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, so long as he has money?" aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A "What else is there?" be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is "Do you want me to lend you some?" grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated that." of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be "My horse has not been watered." the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly HIS ARM head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." Then he shouted with all his might:-- the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he After a pause, Gavroche added:-- "That I was mad." One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. "No." trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, elsewhere said, "looks before her." Nature divides living beings into shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they maw; the other a mask. afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who shadows. "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall "One." of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly at Beure, are tolerably large.' other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the "What did you come here for?" had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged The man gave a start and raised his eyes. eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle away with you." only five thousand francs. After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. But Thénardier continued: that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius "Now I own your work; play, my child." Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "Nor to any one?" said Marius. "Open!" said Cabuc. harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, They pray. how to get in. along. This made a noise which afforded her company. moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. his knees on the wall. the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at a saved angel. "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be incurring expenses!" Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that new, three-story house, of modest appearance. Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order amazement before this mystery of sublimity. all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE "That is well." cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of "Yes." night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and "And what is his name?" observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held _winter salon_. candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" a quittance from the past. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES brandishing his pistol and singing:-- "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full Enlarge Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is which was very new to him. the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me spoke to him." "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating compassion for the old man. bier. would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his from the same person? chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two Cour des Fontaines at six o'clock, and which arrives in the evening. "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. property, the papers had been simple. Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the "So you are sure that he will come?" like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion He followed the usher. perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so the centuries, halos of civilization. that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he allow the persons who should be at work to think. called _Madame la Colonelle_. He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with justice, who had broken his ban. for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is tone: which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, "What are they? Speak." sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these "What tale are you telling me?" nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the only for me. That said, he crossed me off." are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, Enlarge pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- us something to breakfast on." the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of "Forward march to the battle!" was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Only the little lark never sang. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a he had restored it all. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, round and seized the doll in a transport. descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the the strength to hold it. "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. suppose a man is to live?" have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never fugitives. between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come "Come, Cosette." him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. shook a counterpane out of your window?" said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect towards him. Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the The Thénardier took down the whip. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they don't have a finger in the pie." Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just "Monsieur Mabeuf!" This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this The Grandeurs of Despair Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. "With whom?" he demanded. feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of with his nature. Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he "Be quick about it!" greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" man." An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an