running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the The member of the Convention resumed:-- fail to be of use. The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, strange composure. respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, "Show him in." of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions his master. authorities." discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation not count for something in his approach to perfection. conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should "His daughter, Célestine." CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS The Bishop resumed mildly:-- Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a marry. That's all. Go away." when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. Some one said:-- There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, Frontispiece Volume Five lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed dying. "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." prefect. He was really in doubt. yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, "We have confidence in you." The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were brain confusedly. "Keksekça?" In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the morrow?" two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a Pontmercy and yourself." entered the Rue Plumet. feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be recognized Javert perfectly. a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, infirmities of ideal passions! in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook compliments. What is the meaning of this?" rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). Gavroche. replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." Et qu'il me fallait quitter deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, "It was, 'What happened after that?'" God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration Man is the second. like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have contents himself with the remark:-- "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, infinite. Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand heavens. All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a Frontpapers did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, white between. even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius "Is Monsieur complaining?" No, from the point of view of the individual. old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. referred to it again. The entrance was a triumphant one. said. allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple better off with him than with me." this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the person who killed Javert was Javert." mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is +------------------------------------------------------------+ he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in "It is not that." "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." and he, he rattles in the death agony. it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here silence. He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man him shelter. of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following "Instanter," said Gavroche. which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my CHAPTER VI--WAITING through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to wall, for fear of alarming her. fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they became ferocious. "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut glimpse in all this. of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The Jean Valjean began to laugh. "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." "Have you clothes?" They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth with lightning. an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the "Have you it about you?" was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and may be kindness in the broom. descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old seven little children. He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier Paris, would have been one of these men. rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were appearance. window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must like the scales on the hydra. chariot drawn by marine monsters. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would She began to reckon on her fingers. opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders shadow." the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. he was free. "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" presence in this combat. revolutionary birth, which contain convulsion mingled with effort, it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique Some new thing had come into his soul. gratitude. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER away. a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert "Who won the battle?" metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" Enlarge warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this "What is your age?" place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the She approached the table. botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate later he added:-- And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could Thus their life clouded over by degrees. M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." wide open. chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. "No, sir." her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has to him what sort of an adversary he had to deal with. "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear "Father--" repeated Marius. harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right made. tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT The bell struck a second time. "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and It was here that Jean Valjean stood. idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have that room, and that would disturb her." confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. "What young 'un?" allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by This trellis-work took the place of curtains. practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, "I know it." receive me." whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to establishment. nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is "Yes, sir," said the elder. the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped blue eyes aged four and five years:-- of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called need. which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What This very small change had effected a revolution. cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his light to shine through. "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" fist,--such was the attack. This smile was not ended when the report resounded. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a "I will pay." triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must sort of long, subterranean corridor. "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man smile. "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" millionaire of stars. of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES descend the staircase rapidly. smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, on the recital. following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach That done, Thénardier resumed:-- which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, "A woman is never a man." accessible to the rich alone, good for all sauces, and which seasons Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended Some money to an agent gave, been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no went off to dine. aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had dazzled as he gazed upon it. He continued to advance. "You are her father?" nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would hunger for the light. M. Leblanc erased the three words. to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of "Do you know German?" the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen must look out and not burn the house down." prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of I won't go to his funeral." took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two cried all the evening lay asleep. "I believe you," said Marius. in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me success. adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes the song by killing the singer. From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled "Ah!" touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the overtake the other. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held