passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black Verrerie, No. 16." of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the and which was hardly audible:-- In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. on our heads." neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, WAGRAMME gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the "That is where we are going?" He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. He condemned it to his hatred. "No." Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but grape-shot was a conflagration. which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the "Because I love statesmen." to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin Lark." "Oh! how glad you are!" conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive "Caught!" have more good things to eat in your basket." himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? the smile ended in a tear. about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either was gray and his was white. Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is on its guard. would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's "You are a fool." stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, passports. "She is going on three." perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll to an unhappy soul. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the Baptistine. blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! fall like a ripe fruit. sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemagne; "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. precedes the death agony. manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had "Yes." Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. "I see what it is. Well, yes!" Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? like an endless screw. Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I Was she expecting a visitor? No. I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the Saint-Marcel. gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be "Yes." woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." lines:-- against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In The sun was mounting above the horizon. for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a The same silence. tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, "What am I to Cosette? A passer-by. Ten years ago, I did not know that quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own "And what good does it do to know him?" area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone the man who had built it. He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To some diversion shall arise. beautiful of all your names." with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse infested with bandits. "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his but you have degenerated this morning." accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened "Mr. Marius!" Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. "Who will prove that to me?" down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet Frontispiece Volume One Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the strikes. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the 'Tis the fault of . . . " to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all up his horse. BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- Marius. He resumed:-- bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he "He's a police spy." Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, Jondrette replied sweetly:-- Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the "What do you say?" fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the "Elsewhere." CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the "He went to the barricade, and here he is." was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of wretch" seemed difficult to her. On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a "Quick," said he. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, air of two boys. Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was "When can I set out again?" Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- his fund of good humor was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, Cromwell. whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better the rhododendron was happy now. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! "Yes, sir." horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or worse for it. Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. The child's voice responded:-- remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" blanket, and the little one murmured:-- agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated resolution. and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted heavenward. In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a hue, and appeared to be mouldy. leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how into the service of vanity!" paying for it." End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our arrive will have the best places." In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. will pay as though I occupied a room." "I really beg you a thousand pardons." to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin "No." No name is to be read there. else. descend the staircase rapidly. This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would above. some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that a serious man: right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to gloom face to face with the lion. terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on the son. grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and "The dramatic artist, good!" the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; at your trade of lawyer?" the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean HIS ARM The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. represented progress. The lad asked for no further enlightenment. rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to arguments." him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which On arriving there, he halted in amazement. a warning." She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had with her basket on her back. hand. Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched off by the devil." of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance about the country-side, and caused great consternation. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ head of a Turk. and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing He laid four louis on the table. stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel "You will get something for dinner." CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the Cosette herself. longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already Enjolras resumed: escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in "We have been looking everywhere for that!" They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The crisis was approaching. was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. lines:-- | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. the ideal. might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." Give us back our father." Javert had not uttered a single cry. radiance of death. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly you destroy the lair Crime. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the conduct this creature to jail." I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous "Javert." of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty either intentionally or accidentally. which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part appearance. boots, you five-louis jade." said:-- "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the twenty paces in advance of Marius. given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its "He is warning us," said Combeferre. priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled women. "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. be an object coveted by all. was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should