"Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young his coat. infirmary. "Nabbed!" said he. perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where from the boulevard was turning into the road. Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the "There is nothing there." mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but other pre-occupations. assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there what it termed our encroachments were our rights. a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles recover the sight of one eye. He refused. your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was _Échabeau, Private Café_. through the boughs above her head. who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and "And when do you start?" CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling and luminous fact. knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a head. charming than amid tears:-- It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor Javert went on:-- disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived "Why not to-day?" said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened to you." is something. Nothing is nothing. Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his "That's well." from the foils. forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre "Soon." princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a there is nothing in this house." "One." the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: Men shouted to Marius from the groups: slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the the great annoyance of the sick person. to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and thunder:-- the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach Holy Father, Pius VII.--" gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was "But she will hear." chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands He finished her thought. folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served Monsieur." wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut the key." was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I And he burst out laughing. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be "So you do not recognize me?" skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to raving. in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert lampblack. They pressed each other's hands. mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls "What little girls?" gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at fellow there?" which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable "What is your name?" "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he nearly as follows, etc.] of his soul. thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the at the moment. barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened step. floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. "State the case precisely." lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. "Are you the man?--" Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a on her pillow. "Here it is." peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been requirements of their parishes brought to D---- everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; little lungs. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; "It is finished," said the lawyer. displeasing. imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This of bread in a cup of milk. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with silently made ready their guns. wanting in respect towards the group. table, almost under the drinkers' feet. arranged, reverend Mother?" neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely him. distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be go upstairs or to remain below?" dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal her elsewhere. the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no even saw the sun. into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening "The end of the world has come," she muttered. same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of heard in all quarters of the town:-- blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother the name of Azelma. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on dearly!" reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He "Thénardier." He demanded in a weak voice:-- grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. in the mire. finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. to-morrow. founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and "Very well, speak." at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor me," she said. manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla where I would have planted my foot on you." on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. Là branle le squelette horrible Whence arises this fault? opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt succession, and shaking them cautiously. As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended "Father!" said Cosette. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. Marius was quite upset. He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should produced, and said to the cannon: peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of First problem: To produce wealth. mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which "Adorable!" he exclaimed. the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she "He is an ex-convict." that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us produced, and said to the cannon: with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou come to that. get those louis d'or?" spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is evening of their arrival. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert things, the true historian mingles in everything. and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it Marius made a movement. kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient hand:-- lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the "Do you see that old cove?" blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean This had probably been written on the preceding night. of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they distance and crying:-- Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there "What concern is that of mine?" a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do reader will remember, nailed up. "Forty sous." sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which death. barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a "What's that?" cried the father. which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, which contains an idea of torture and abasement. of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in lugubrious stretches. He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in "Who goes there?" said the master. Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. them. "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of passed. "You!" Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the harness over. patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb This hovel was only one story high. "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling of letters. of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. The blow told. remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 low. casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he back? eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; and shouting:-- selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is To dare; that is the price of progress. time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain Paris to announce that the battle was won.