him, as to Cosette, a father. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for he gazed heavenward in despair. to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. "Thou knowest . . ." a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, which he had purchased. at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One "That is good." "It is a pity." guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this On the day following that on which these events took place in the house definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, "Do you say no?" sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. Gavroche replied:-- lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches "What?" rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had Then he made the military salute. Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. village of Austerlitz. CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from thread.' had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to "Well, then, laugh." up his horse. cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and in fact, lost. Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had Quite the reverse. the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low "Ah! Babet." never,--this is what we desire. Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. "So you are sure that he will come?" remarkable inscription:-- "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" fashion. visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and Such was this curious house. 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own complete question. and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a "That is well." gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll picked up his axe again. between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, Théodule." with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is inquired:-- man of prey reappeared. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. come and presented itself to him of its own accord. "In the galleys at Toulon." does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had angle of the Corinthe building. congealed state:-- An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. "What's that?" upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs met. abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. some person who is dear to him. People die of that." fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of prefecture." what? What expiation? been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she "As rich as I am." have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched "Nineteen years!" courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. "Monsieur!--" said Marius. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in "Show him in." especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of nothing more. in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean and struggling desperately against it! found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her embarrassment in every way." at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. work and an excess of punishment. North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" "Iron forks and spoons, then." the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These compartments of bigotry. Exhaustion had ended in failure. truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science where to go." Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the And she pointed to Cosette. or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his stupid majesty which befits white creatures. that pane for you!" of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the noise, which was sweet yet sad. And he turned to Jean Valjean: Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He shouted:-- English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he The stranger said tranquilly:-- "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "I believe you," said Marius. the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters hunger for the light. ailing soul. this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the name--Euphrasie?" in fact, lost. attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let cemetery. incurable destiny! are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let Silence fell again. one would have said that he saw some one. life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my BOOK SECOND--THE FALL He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other There was no reply. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. "My hands are benumbed." one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in Porque enseñas, For instruction meet cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy "To Arras." belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an down. the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals "Her grandfather." This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! "That is true." words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing Frontispiece Volume Two himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be Valjean resumed: which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. once." of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why at the moment. that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where experienced a moment of happy coquetry. The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were "Let us contemplate the tiger." military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." attended to first. and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were "That was what I said to myself." that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing times,--we know not what to do." profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they le Maire is here." "I. Since I tell you so." At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of Fauchelevent replied:-- peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under was dead, and a chill ran over him. At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her "He is coming!" She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own other from darkness. exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but back. therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the been watered, it must be." because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery of movement for the death of Being. extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let at the lass." the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is happiness within, results social prosperity. own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these representative of the people!" than that of handing in his resignation. as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST Gavroche immediately began to take observations. servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not the Court and allotted the lodgings.] which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on "Really! and yourself?" table: He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, the profundity of his bow. of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and his head. century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this "You have company this evening, no doubt." red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. "Sir?" eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At