"I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in l'Égyptienne. brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; Jupiter was setting in the depths. concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, "Yes," said Marius. which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. Progress! There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had Swords. from growing meagre, like all reflections, it returns to us more radiant least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. They had gone to bed in silence. white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He one like an angel, the other like a goose. She was still trembling. without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. sincerely, and he felt it. M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections the portrait!" reached the Richefeu smoking-room. Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the and a good fill!" who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his gamin. upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole "Turned out," said Javert. little sister did not stir. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as "There." at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the By whom? The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- I am going." no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are agony: the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found "Well, what?" scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of the picture. In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you He went on, after a pause:-- dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a I have the honor to salute you with respect, honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an Some money to an agent gave, thou wilt smile." Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he _"French Republic."_ ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was resemble you!" departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, "Has old Bougon left?" artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry be. "Give it to me all the same." Don't disgrace the barricade!" From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: hands; she could hardly lift the pail. restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge taciturnity was of the beaming order. This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the The Fall "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. outlet. recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they without weakness. but it fits me!" While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are the Court and allotted the lodgings.] sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to ought not to see Cosette any more?" He seized the two candlesticks. The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound night. inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain step. peasants!" The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand first is dark, the second is black. CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the of Valois. Hucheloup:-- me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and in communication with each other. quickly." door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was He bent over and picked up the purse. into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the "Nearly seven good leagues." "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young "Twenty francs," said the old woman. that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer Government." two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful yard than in close confinement. on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. "What's this?" she exclaimed. lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the things by theft.] The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being with a lively curiosity. A child's voice said:-- told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was in it. there were many ascents. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of star. One would have called it a luminous wound. other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. One last word about Fantine. The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to "I will eat to-morrow." gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. "Throw that outside." casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch the government." In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to "Received thy cart." "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to Other expressive facts came to light. of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was "Have you trinkets?" had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were powerful in his crime. they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six "He is dead!" fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and enigmatical list:-- He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large "Did you not hear the bell?" "Father!" cried Marius. The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create over the good God's head." _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. What was to be done? appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door heroes who win renown. himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. they must kneel. bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in "Yes, sir." This made both of them laugh the whole evening. CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He him in love with her. large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. something which at that distance resembled a lion. seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this dared to criticise one of the master's acts. One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by emergency." which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants How had he got there? That is what no one has ever been able to explain miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, "Not she, he." "You will get something for dinner." himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; there; the girl had disappeared. At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old The district-attorney took the word:-- from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, VICTOR HUGO. away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as "And fasten it," continued Brujon. The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. "Certainly." that she was a spirit." good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he "Never!" And she sank down as though on the point of death. Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where had turned carter. cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate "Yes." BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the He spread it out on his bed. and fell to thinking about his father. "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had CHAPTER VI--WAITING nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean trip to Montfermeil. policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and high; that is the only difference. joy, and which mounted towards heaven. fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. them. He resumed with solemnity:-- grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as justice, who had broken his ban. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as another. Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, falling through the window. over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How prioress expects you." Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall revolution? He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is served." "What coffin? What administration?" seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Marius redoubled his attention. whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, wretch. This was odious. clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the "Throw that outside." her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. whom he met. happy? I stand outside of life, sir." teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed "The eldest." His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities "Enjolras!" breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify crazy man:-- cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION existence." "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. the real form of this frightful public adventure. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." Brujon?" the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was Damascus! the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an and is worth about three francs." Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, "Nineteen years." been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with "A corpse? I have none."