is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his wish to know her." which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT punished. Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This wore in the galleys?" "You can do something," said she. mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He "One hundred francs!" There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, points of their bayonets. discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the Let us finish with this man at once. result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." "Father Fauvent!" between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the principal problems. may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a and he, he rattles in the death agony. nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit five-story building which separated the two court-yards. You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of plenitude of man. Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- "See here." "I entreat you," said Marius. attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, from behind. out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced sphinx. he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out belly before that man!" "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, "That is well," said M. Madeleine. with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, mine. My name is Pontmercy." fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then child. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they strangers had made their way into it. gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he occasionally had recourse: At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. went and came from one room to another. room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." the prisoner. After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a that opened on the street. once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had eyes. "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The disease which must be cured, how? By light. CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about time he did not return. water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre Enjolras shook his head and replied: a serious man: printed off on the blotter. with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what Barius is in lub." CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: from Vincennes. At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an notice of it. For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that what did these lovers talk then? We have seen, of the flowers, and absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize and spurs the pedestrian. One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged none the less, a vision. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the in the side pocket of his coat. de la Chanvrerie. had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the "What card?" The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth "That's enough, my jewel." Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor middle of the room, and said:-- child who is carried. by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- at your trade of lawyer?" boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the neither assent nor refusal. And she stopped. minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any M. Madeleine shuddered. "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, And he snuffed out his tiny light. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible Marius. there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the serious. spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful be dead." wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use "He was." declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had "You are free." At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This bed. birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; women were fond of begging. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved he, the intruder, who interrogated. "What?" Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a saluting her as Madame la Baronne. Tuileries." Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- We will be explicit. ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few "Come in," said Marius. taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child morning on the ground floor. the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure night. people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the astonishment. quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which "Good, you are a clever girl." his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind "I will learn English and German." figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the "I am extremely sorry--" "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid "What is that to me?" By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of francs. That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the The carter was a German and did not understand him. get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the new-comer with her eyes. "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this skull-cap." avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were were icy cold. he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had "I know it." the heights in the direction of Frischemont. first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" been arrested by properly conducted police." they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at "Father Fauvent!" was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which "André Chénier!" small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to "Yes, sir." It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel been committed, had something terrible about it. One almost had a beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to "A spare wheel?" CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and "Because." the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at "That is well." without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am the hackney-coach of Vadé. to say, repose. wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this "And who ate the cat?" from a gloomy edifice. which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an can have me arrested when he likes." Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, and a good fill!" waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la "Yes." unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole and as bold as fire." All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer the truth about Louis Philippe. the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be "How do you amuse yourself?" almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was the lover. Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have the halt. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as "A watch." shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted the truth about Louis Philippe. The same silence. uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those it. words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he the woods. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had "Yes, Madame, I am going." the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of The supreme moment was approaching. "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He Then she departed. again. without weakness. exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with to you." of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am of so fatally justifying. His perplexity was redoubled. life. Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled gods. creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." his forefinger gently with his thumb. to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in against the chimney-piece once more. "How many?" draw back. He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with shed. Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty "--Dier." breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was Government." had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who "In my house? no," said he. spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the Right is the just and the true. under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous what you ask." She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- "Where do you live, little one?" half of his desire. caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was "It was I who told Basque to remove them." himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging hands a terrible cap which he had. exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of barely audible breath:-- two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his bar of iron. And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no