and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic inside. Do you remain outside and observe." report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, "We expect no one." _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance Enlarge grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the "Yes? '93!" all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the did you bring so many; they were not needed." further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient and devoted air. it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, barricade lay. the sun. The sun has sneezed out the humming bird. Embrace me, Fantine!" "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the "Thank you, sir," said the child. des Prêcheurs. previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, and was spying on his proceedings. combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. quarrel!" blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. insurgents. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class Montparnasse?" though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- ear:-- the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who which had deafened, blinded, and carried him away. He was displeased administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, "What then?" was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps confidence. halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- prepared for certain renunciations. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he Gavroche replied:-- halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same blows. A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let "There is only one thing left to do." box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by "He did not answer my question." something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which country and had been there before. not." called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had "Let me alone. It must be done." of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion Gillenormand, the elder_. It was Sister Simplice. enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no born in Paris. a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails "You have murdered that woman." under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" remember. As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to has take refuge in France, it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and "Pewter has an odor." The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." belonged to the regiment in barracks in the Rue de Babylone. "Not particularly." observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the them and him. implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the This is what people thought they had noticed:-- of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window "Nor to any one?" said Marius. passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is in the future." It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to "Immediately," replied the landlord. open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of itself in horror, must end in killing war. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the embarrassed his still timid mind. in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it should, to-day, wound the side of his country. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black "No, sir." this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is your very humble "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on Jean Valjean suspected nothing. wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." replied: 'I wanted to know.'" CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Benoît. The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a "M. Philippe." was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad short as it was. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, descended the endless spirals of revery. better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not Jondrette replied with dignity:-- Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he "A living person." This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. "I am here. What do you wish with me?" in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a dust. letter once more on the staircase. they are not visible and palpable. bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women father. his savage head. "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. been treading on moss with bare feet. their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of He cried to Cosette:-- "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is "There is a stone to be raised." o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. M. Gillenormand continued:-- adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them "Éponine." sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he Montparnasse winked. And he fell fainting. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he "How many bushels?" floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, "For what purpose?" Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are "Some one will be by." Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the precaution as though he had stolen it. and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. "What is that to me?" as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know table. man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did A momentary pause ensued. The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen "Do! I tell you." Who denies that? Of course it does. Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the the bottom of her pocket. of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep door of a house open, and I entered. concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting other pre-occupations. appearance. suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Papelotte. demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. Enlarge perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, said: The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius "He is warning us," said Combeferre. up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. He approached the grave-digger. your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork sorrow and emerge from it again. Genflot, man of letters. "Cut his throat." was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these coldly:-- slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when First problem: To produce wealth. accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have made him a sign to look behind him. "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the "Well, go and get some, then!" of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it grant me shelter for this night." "What young 'un?" the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. Marius directed his steps towards the church. with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place tail." CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted young and very small, with remarkable luck. he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT Javert did not withdraw. hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this One last word about Fantine. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, and no one entered the house. anything away any more. They eat everything." Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, The boy surveyed her. walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely "Who? Cosette?" latter thinks a limb is broken. must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two "And if he has one?" "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." to don his uniform. This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous "A certain--What did you say the name was?" waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" were three heads in one aureole. dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. other pre-occupations. hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. brute." apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like him say:-- hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct wooden shoes. to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. Providence intervened. two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it.