infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, These four shadows were the four men. All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; "Is it cold?" further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your "What coffin? What administration?" And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean can have me arrested when he likes." confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I everybody is canaille!" of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." A man entered. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing La gloire et la guerre, "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make these crossroads. for five hundred and a thousand francs. sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of brain confusedly. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves have just given you fifteen hundred francs." Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in vivaciously:-- consent. We will drink. After work, never before." "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the on top of each other. plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming "What is that?" inquired the child. glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and The father replied: This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. be seen from the street. "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; white. first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that Enlarge too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and others; a second later, all six were reunited. suffering bestows. It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a it. calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever God. pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. the next morning. beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still world. situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN his toes projected were visible. Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards evil-minded is black. before something which was coming after. On all sides there were decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with "Six o'clock precisely." who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of darkness and waiting for him. sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross "Burst!" CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It She murmured:-- establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted should have no dwelling place! of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; through great rays of gilded wood. In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. "I see what it is. Well, yes!" Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." "It is light, but it has no cover." Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. cabriolet?" one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong will have the letter when she wakes up." One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad the sand is above his knees. it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope "Pay attention." "Yes," replied the mother. calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That stood near him:-- Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? "Ber--" tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the country of jet . . ." humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the "Do me the service to go and fetch him." freaks of pettiness. That is all. The incomplete times in which we live. quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had filth and it was Sinai. visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a to don his uniform. heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." "Have a care." He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How "What is that?" Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "You are right," she said to him. the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the had deserted him. All that he had believed in melted away. Truths which We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- "That's true." The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the Montfermeil. It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install roof was slippery. spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean side of an abyss: CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and shriek which she confined to her throat. Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and the other. Marius resumed:-- impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious what I am about to dictate to you." "I see what it is. Well, yes!" death ought to be a masterpiece. occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN "Put this in the fire." Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of idea:-- resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he in communication with each other. escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which Cosette's dreams. "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary works. See paragraph 1.E below. thanks upon you. Where do you live?" outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: the scarf became a shawl once more. And the mother's pale face grew radiant. than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in "Where would you have me go?" electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers He took breath, smiled and resumed: enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer moments before. Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that dormitories. The old woman strained her lungs. you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau an occasion for obscenity. 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, The sergeant lowered his bayonet. drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming should have no dwelling place! "Well?" implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You "Whereabouts is the bed?" which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he gaze. appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say "Very cold. It is snowing." open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong He finished her thought. retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron nut no longer held firm. get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. had disappeared, but in his heart. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with around them had fallen into a hole. They lived in a golden minute. There rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" "Do you belong in this street?" actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and outburst of inward laughter. fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one He is alone. His name is God. weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, "A little." envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find Jean Valjean began again:-- "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys was getting the upper hand. arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. "Ah! good God!" he cried. been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to "Do you say no?" once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that "What vault?" to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" "Then give me a drink," said Javert. goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long "She did not answer it." BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material to enlarge the aperture still further. those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You "Yes." to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. certain that the young girl did look at him. "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely distinctly heard voices. the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for gloom face to face with the lion. Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not on his boots. is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he "What beastly weather!" said he. _administration_ had not _robbed him_." on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the to wear my scar?" loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid collar of his coat. He said:-- and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the against it. but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out exclaimed, "What frights they are!" powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of good odor. "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was against it. He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. say."