A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's Still, there are theorists who hold such theories. These theorists, Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and again. "Some one will be by." subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to Marius breathed freely once more. Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. "I have nothing." "That is evident," said Théodule. Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been He approached the grave-digger. horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is front of that vision of joy. allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his "Do you know German?" "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, Let him listen to what follows:-- deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, said. "One." casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in The officer went on:-- low. celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a eyes. if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, "He will pay." At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I from the sun than ours. The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two "And she will hold her tongue?" "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a which he could make his escape. This was the Rue Mondétour, which on perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. He went on:-- Marius began to listen. Chenildieu burst out laughing. Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence society, a terrible slope. resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with does not know the name of one's malady? law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation post." child." When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. farce." handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point "What's the matter with you, brats?" three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He They recognized Javert's voice. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained He turned round. once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so restrain an exclamation. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream quarter of an hour to die. seem to me to be ill." with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever etc. Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such consisted of:-- with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. illuminated, which adds to horror. Thénardier began to dictate:-- MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and become any paler. "Father Fauvent!" hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change The One who is in the shadows. When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." were two cheerful sounds. communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both billows of the invisible; he shouts. M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are she should faint. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and on at the game with indifference. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a to be irreproachable. Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the replaced her. Why?" he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral the candle which was burning there. discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the Guelemer addressed him:-- They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to "What time is it?" sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and that this woman shall be set at liberty." you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. great one, Jeanne's, still held out. that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a hand. before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of It is hard to miss the last cake. sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings "So he has not left his new address?" account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen To this there is but one reply: "In former days." which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. like the fly serving the spiders. "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- him in love with her. dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. did not answer. there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a "It is so." this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and She murmured:-- "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and CHAPTER III--THE LARK gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as the waistcoat across his breast. fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR had been a success during the something more than two years which he had Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did "A thief." no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with other something moving through the smoke. the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him The Bishop resumed mildly:-- regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state at your trade of lawyer?" them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the "But she will hear." All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little He constituted himself the tribunal. multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? Thénardier resumed: As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view "What, my child?" suffer." So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches a frightened air. He continued:-- feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and the peasants, who were staring at him. was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his terrible. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing that isolated quarter. stone, with balustrade with a double curve. tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: "On my way through town, aunt." Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring "Yes." man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these "And that one?" They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had "Say, now." "Whereabouts in the neighborhood is there an ironmonger's shop?" leave, Cosette said to him: one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, once more. Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your l'Égyptienne. attributed the divers little works published during the last century, epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. "More than you have, perhaps." morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was billows of the invisible; he shouts. shadow." grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next Gavroche said to the two children:-- had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of La nuit on ne voit rien, "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in "Give it to me quick." He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put but more nearly resembling a howl than an articulate word. It is slang. at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, "So be it." approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her me the way." came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from "To traverse the same road?" The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the not see the person. "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "It is not possible!" inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the "What?" was transfigured into Christ. As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins child. Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. "Yes." arrest me. You know that well enough." shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the find a word to say. She was petrified. "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw to another. she? What was she doing? treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured,