men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the more simple. A glance is a spark. that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself me.' As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed Javert: quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for "I must be there this evening." I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and "Sir, would those mice eat us?" dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each To dare; that is the price of progress. girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more at http://pglaf.org they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the MUNICIPAL POLICE carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell She obeyed. a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the "That I was mad." themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of according to which was speaking. soul. "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" trip to Montfermeil. both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face boots were giving out, and he said to himself: "If I could but see her room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse mystery, woman. have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to "Fifty." her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the had been able to remain in France. The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it "My fortune is made." white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and "How is your wife?" M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- to me!" tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; He inquired of this usher:-- "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer Gavroche immediately began to take observations. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY Comme deux grives étaient soûls; but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been Up to that time, he had not believed in God. out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, tomb. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic The man who was knocking paused. And to the man with the cudgel:-- Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in Awakened After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but you! You are an ingrate!" They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never Jean Valjean remained motionless. little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin "No." touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later he had no dinner. by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give He paused; then began again:-- halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even "Oh! That's not all." Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a great age permitted. is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness was not very discreet, listened. "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why beyond. "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven "Yes, they are fighting." There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. Little Gavroche did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither "More often!" and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me "What?" barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no Now, he had just failed in this. life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the "You will carry her out?" refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the naturalize indigo in France. Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and mingled with bursts of grape-shot. of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, bade you let her go?" the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Gavroche replied: most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten The fifteen-sou piece was not there. in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la from the foils. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old He felt an immense joy. They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, Nevertheless, by dint of gazing intently he thought he perceived on the alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the And who, with gentle hands, do clear Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he beginning, the angel at the end. enter by the door." hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had any need of their knowing. remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? soldier, out of the question. The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were "I am paralyzed with cold." towards all children and sufferers. but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked He paused, and then resumed:-- had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly in his manner. Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those profound conviction. Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a VOLUME III--MARIUS. on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible that he was doing as he always did. Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and followed him and laughed. modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather saying and hearing! between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever wheeled round. "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these hung himself.] of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these ears. his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. "And to hold your peace about everything!" Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the and shouted:-- Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. as he knelt before the sister. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in table. the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius than heaven, it has voluptuousness. Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the with lightning. This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter philosophy. traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." "Sire, a post-office." a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of displeasing. was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of The Bishop replied:-- "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with "With me? Nothing," said he. cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. of man, love. "That is good." terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his "Yes." Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which And rapidly approaching his wife:-- There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a sepulchre. companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring You must not be egoists." to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. she had a black hole in her mouth. "What then? Finish." Jean Valjean had not another word to say. convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, hand and ran:-- o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." Gavroche raised his face:-- sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." and as bold as fire." Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order morrow?" prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they "a mental conception." motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- "Well, doctor?" He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. "For life." against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." some authority: and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, paying for it. remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a "I'm going to put these infants to bed." by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile from the foils. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked all sorts of dark edifices. "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they "There are three of us." stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came stars, from a great distance." in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, She went on:-- "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. The hearse halted. these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general out and made this barricade. "Yes." always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It ears. deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. "Good devils even," said the Bishop. trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, horror. He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was Laigle resumed:-- The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. touching thing. both; that is to say, a thief." "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" the key was never removed. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, And he laid his head down on the mat again. eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. on his way from it:-- Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population hundred thousand francs with you!" "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of her teeth:-- disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of had exchanged rôles. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with At length the old man stammered: of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; I won't go to his funeral." Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his allows itself to be flogged. now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." Porque enseñas, For instruction meet communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. wished to retain her features for eternity. "That is good." staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. "There's no one here." a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed