sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners 'blaze the crib.'" shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by girl. with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms she. was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." cudgel, which was lying on the ground. hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." illusions. of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. "Who will prove that to me?" contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. to the right, and the other to the left. Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always disappointment to impatience. The same silence. The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings "Beginning with my father!" beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making unfolding this paper. "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the repeated Marius. The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an years between them, but they already represented the whole society of blossomed forth from the twilight. reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. resumed:-- mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When night. It was a headlong flight. had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, WRONG A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a M. Gillenormand continued:-- away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of us something to breakfast on." name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 "Do you know German?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always Jondrette. Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of one thing, but not for another. Sir, I conjure you, I entreat now, sir, Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. "Anarchy is entering this garden." Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which Let us cut it short. What do you want?" The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. night: for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would is smaller; that is all. with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of thread.' _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very She called him _father_, and knew no other name for him. crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We fillip. CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY Enlarge to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- pedestrians. created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" "My gun! Here they are!" The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb Then he raised his voice:-- At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the "to remain unmarried."] "It was mine." the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries The inspector muttered:-- As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to is not a caste. Chénier, resumed precipitately: his blue ribbon!" BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. characters, with a pencil:-- subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. inside and a thicket on the outside. my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil was on the verge of swooning. committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, and three wounded. difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at "Yes." appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an gendarme. mistaken for a book. She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light Dépêche. (Make haste.) we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some "I must be there this evening." illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by "Yes, and a hand stopping it." Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius what made me run so." He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. there were no longer any lanterns. opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth "I cannot." more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." "Yes," replied the Bishop. little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? The Comfortor known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. He spread it out on his bed. The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. "I am sure." "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." poltroon!" "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." they say if I did not go?" "Yes, that's it," said she. it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad "Do you see that old cove?" his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost her hand opened the door. grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package him. Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, The gendarmes retired. immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert from the foils. a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and said:-- heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his "Yes." cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the "Who will prove that to me?" At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make admiration. intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. Master Scaufflaire continued:-- To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no "Grub away." those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must "Somewhat." What Marius now beheld was a hovel. and deserted men, fall over them once more. The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, understood the book. He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, larger amount of sadness. And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off "Yes, sir." However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with the inspector called to him:-- CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine _"Amen." _ brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The The rag-picker cried:-- The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. intoxicated young man. which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER with this date:-- we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to lily. "On your knees!" he repeated. streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, life!" spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I "He did not say when." CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of "Yes." suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to himself and lowered it to the vent. the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into presented himself and said to Marius:-- "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, A man entered. Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a it by hope. He said:-- Jean Valjean replied: it melts and leaves the branch quite black. slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his He dined with a good deal of appetite. The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" "What will you eat?" "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love immense! joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed Mademoiselle there says with me--" heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She "Did you go in?" demanded her father. subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman from the foils. hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who tranquilly resumed his stroll. to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What "Mr. Marius, are you there?" wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a was. accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why ears. haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his banishes winter from the human countenance. internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that said:-- lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he barricade. rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw them: the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to "Show the man in," said Marius. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the Let us complete this exposition. fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the M. Gillenormand continued:-- paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the straw before the hurricane. All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her short as it was. heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get "He told me that he was in good health." June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. He knelt beside Cosette's bed. charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to the Restoration. illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the hummed:-- to him:-- The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment "Come, you know well enough." me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is of a tragic adventure. colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a must look out and not burn the house down." He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his He made a sign of the head in the negative. him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- Enjolras: "What fine marble!" He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their to their community. from the suburbs sustained the artillery. What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine.