them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- short as it was. Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, that room, and that would disturb her." it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through their neighbors. to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. presence of all humanity. believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant Titlepage Volume Two moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give abyss of Eden had yawned once more. "I," said Javert. soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a stained brow. was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." discuss the question." from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound CHAPTER II--MARIUS church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had she was capable. Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent no more than a police spy." opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to "I am here to do anything you wish." You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering alluding to the landing at Cannes. The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of Montparnasse?" befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. "I wish to surprise him." No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be "That one?" said his wife. Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was Then he exclaimed:-- In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent "He is coming!" Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt should choose the barbarians. him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. "You will remain with us a week at least?" follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall breasts."] The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an perfectly white!" cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not "I." entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish "I do not know." a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in printed off on the blotter. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Waterloo protects you." of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession his plea. Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. "Pay in advance," said the coachman. toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve "That very one," said the husband. blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair this youth. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius of the elephant:-- Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first commonly supposed. immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little The mirror reflected the writing. his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish Gavroche. an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "My cake tires me. It is stale." probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the second offence. grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing Jean Valjean remained motionless. "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. melted lead. found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; charter. The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept even saw the sun. corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. o'clock in the evening. And again she said to him:-- her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. "Would you like to have me go with you?" damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, The Bishop was not touched as it seems that he should have been. He all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he "That's enough, my jewel." also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by assailed, scaled, and never captured. to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large on the ground, and took his departure. a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew saint suited this soul. three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a by a glory. gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, "I can't quit the vehicle." BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue both; that is to say, a thief." somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! step. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great sworn!" pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very face of your mother. Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius country of ours?" garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their pleased. Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, the infinite. jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved "That's it." foot. Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply chamber. of realities. Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that "Quin?" cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- without weakness. misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO "Then that is where Marius is going?" The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into little girl whom Fantine heard singing. But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme de la Chanvrerie. he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for "How long is the coffin?" ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. shouted:-- excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting "Thirty-four." each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to A man entered. made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness And this other poem:-- almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable them closer at hand. refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and blessing." _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a placed on the table. It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: halting-places. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had punished. to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked directly behind her. you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the were still thirty-seven of them. Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole. He and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS "Cut it off." nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the women's obedience. Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish had turned. the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret "Well?" "For life." It was not worth while to place a lion there. failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, And Courfeyrac added:-- The Auvergnat was snoring. grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did Basque announced: "You do not recognize me?" "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" recalled. in that manner? The Grand Army. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! "No. I knew it before." to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of "That is exactly so." the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because window to the other. relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, He set out on his way once more. there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his life. word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons coachman under the knees. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the and addressed her, the nun never replied. and it was a long time before he recovered from it. the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then "And with his goody-goody air!" greater thing is there?" was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but continued:-- This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT Enlarge deprive a man. black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither "Fauchewhat?" took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered knees along the barricade!" One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to Marius directed his steps towards the church. the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully "--Dier." They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the set foot in the house of either of them in my life." a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the established there a free dispensary. being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure He glanced at the cloud. Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this roof was slippery. Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. dazzled as he gazed upon it. only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its freaks of pettiness. That is all. paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; belong to every one." conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, faint light of liberty which men call death. Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? noise, which was sweet yet sad. He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting fortify him in his resolution. visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious whatever. descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery.