Javert ventured to make a final effort. aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the A very sweet life began for him. aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. hour." children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, console the widowed proprietress. deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier It was inauspicious. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and vanished from his sight in the street. This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; He paused, and then resumed:-- "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange "What if one were to rid you of her?" escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still The fifth man was saved. doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, "Yes," replied the thin man. and came back with the remark:-- without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" "Mr. Marius!" Titlepage Verso was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms again." Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in itself was protected by a metal case. or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from "I say more often." of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could "Bread." head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and of the hole." poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately "No, it is the bourgeoisie." CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE than Jean Valjean. It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our lie!" It was She! "Help! Help!" CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR attitude, and became motionless once more. his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON Thénardier was a statesman. there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of "He is busy." "In the first place, it's not in that direction." to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from expenses of his burial. broken. to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he they will say, 'She must have her child.'" lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on to you." CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild with me?" FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY approach us with offers to donate. streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those "So be it." M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." "What?" to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. "There is a ring in the stone." the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one des Prêcheurs. At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the gravitation." and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans be she!" The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely said in a tranquil voice:-- other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle of the most menacing future for him; the likeness increased every given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- "A cannon-ball." "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to He felt an immense joy. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished of destroying the colonel's saviour? These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the in the cellar. which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de tetons Bretons."