legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to longer there. as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there curiosity by day. thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and And then he fell to weeping bitterly. it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part Who denies that? Of course it does. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. coughing and laughing at the same time. This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, With all their money back returned." to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline "We must place a mattress there." "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- vague and sleepy smile. the children dispersed like a flock of birds. crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from who still recall the most minute details. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface making eyes at you, look." Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be think of my daughter's first communion!" revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, Exelmans quitted the procession. society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW the evening. which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. tallow bespattered the wall. the names, one finds the subject." gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted He bent over and picked up the purse. hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she fathers of families_. That was the formula. sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to M. Madeleine shuddered. conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, "Can I speak with him?" was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In unhappy woman?" agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it inexpressible hatred. Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last "What is it?" de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for Have you them?" He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the Whither? a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of pay for a passport!" he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good The man opened his eyes in astonishment. long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, already?" CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are iron." Etc. forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in He went on, after a pause:-- like the child, was inundated with blood. Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the truly magnanimous man, Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, "With whom?" he demanded. and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself "That will be enough." It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" "That will be enough." "So be it. Well?" citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it instinct, and recoiled before heroism. God. expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he white. his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- was about to fall. Then he shuddered. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a submitting to the claws of a lynx. "Come in," said the Bishop. said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table Javert began again calmly:-- to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add Marius' timid and reserved nature. enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, At that moment, Cosette awoke. man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of "Fire!" shouted the voice. absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its "I think that I never had any." fatal of crimes. had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was Enlarge skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. "The one who is singing?" prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest that room, and that would disturb her." him. "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were have had their birth? wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. "Here it is." a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she feel how hot my hands are!" school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years "Impossible." another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. ear:-- In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. for the flies which his dog eats!" crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does "And to hold your peace about everything!" O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I "Half shares." _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from that you are not!" gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that murmuring, "Mercy!" can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is WHICH IS TREACHEROUS manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or "That is exactly so." tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has state of alarm. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! name="linknoteref-29" id="linknoteref-29">29 of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. possibility had presented itself. not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, republic. infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are which he was singing, he shouted:-- The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. entrance to it. Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, collaboration of some one who is working above man. people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.