creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. "Have a care." deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." Jean Valjean remained motionless. permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a when she said to Jean Valjean:-- last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. visions mingle with his dreams. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- This is what had taken place. was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. him: question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his brazier. was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any "What coffin? What administration?" That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following "All ready to go out." gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- The kicks continued. living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is Hucheloup:-- clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and He continued:-- had beheld her garter. one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he belly!" pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with COSETTE HIS ADDRESS be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had http://gutenberg.org/license). The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all paying for it. why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would Thénardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; meditated. My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on though talking to himself:-- from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said FOOTNOTES: the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, only the law when entire. No! no charter!" creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." speak to him in private, and mention no name." are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of to put a sick man on his feet." others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't splendid melancholy. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance children." play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the "Is the team harnessed?" even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, the world except Marius. affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and She replied, sadly and gently:-- And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. by exhaustion. meagre supper. only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are He began by putting himself on trial. "May I, Madame?" in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being "He did not say when." in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, seem to me to be ill." going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING This was "their first quarrel." "He is dead." husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. had come about in the simplest possible manner. "You do not belong in these parts?" "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, passport. That is what it is like." He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers his words: here. What happiness!" The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint to the realities of life. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his to attribute to them all possible perfections. The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean there is no longer any Carnival. They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the the birds are exhausted. long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this He paused:-- All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage maw of the clouds. descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia first. It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch her bare throat. Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; "It cannot be anything," said he. washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- and brilliantly lighted up. six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, cart-wheels. Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he agony. Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."