his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted The servant stammered:-- "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, Javert began again calmly:-- through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending everywhere.] The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA finger on this compartment and said:-- it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which men were earthen in hue. blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which alongside. permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better morning." slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had prepared for certain renunciations. M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the from the same person? Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression authority buttoned to the chin. her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on a warning." suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We that they give you suck." Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy strangers had made their way into it. the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology throne. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, Madeleine shuddered. verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a "More often!" it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, malice or stupidity. At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld "Bosh!" said Théodule. attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea questioned, Montparnasse replied. "Then I understand the girl is rich?" face. a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything the thigh, that's all." did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel fall from his pocket. these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the being sketched out. And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became L'Esplanade-du-Sud. mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. He made a sign of the head in the negative. foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the something charming, luminous, and impossible. Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and "And then?" said Gavroche. in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over was Cambronne. offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor She paused, not daring to proceed further. working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been to wear my scar?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence and weeds, and died. garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking Infinite. passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the glanced around the room in a sort of terror. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. vices and aspired to all crimes. this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the "The rats." he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never Loire. have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression She thought no more about it. whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two Marius continued: Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained displeasing. Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In right. all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put man." youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the congealed state:-- "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the worth?" with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech He simply took flight. "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs heaven. It was necessary to begin there." And as he ran:-- longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. "Some one who wants supper and bed." nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor he doing? Why does he not come?" He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a "I will pay on my return." Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed He embarrassed God. de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, with the cavern? of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the "I assure you that it will bore you." "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other "And people also." where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. law." "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by Javert had not uttered a single cry. behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. dum volvitur orbis_." "Adieu, Madame." leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. Marius did not understand: "A pupil." His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." Madeleine turn round. Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. And she caught her father round the neck again. It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I Saint-Marcel. melts in love, which is its sun. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been trembling voice:-- "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and inquiring for the mayor. humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had traveller. therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that interrogated. The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow outburst of inward laughter. posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other Madeleine turn round. He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that charming than amid tears:-- "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more a saved angel. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where took place. suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, "What a dentist!" he cried. time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what the cafés. was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "Will you open, yes or no?" "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of "Mr. Mayor, the truth is the truth. I am sorry; but that man is Jean that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around Jean Valjean listened. vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of from a gloomy edifice. to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean "He told me that he was in good health." The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. "Look out!" Azelma. the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a with Cosette's handwriting. days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. "We are sober," added Listolier. himself in the future. shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education of the street. close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order fist,--such was the attack. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even "I pay no attention to any but my own." On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is "Keep on your masks," said Javert. diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the leaving that hated and hating house. noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To cartridges left in the barricade." no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the splendid melancholy. "For whom is this letter?" how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established changed.] reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard "You know well that people refuse me." He murmured: served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying First problem: To produce wealth. Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. "Are you a good Christian?" No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. "She will grow up ugly." the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? "Hey?" said Gavroche. iron." Etc. into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed He finished her thought. The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still Marius kept the pistol in his hand. into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this by it. the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, And she felt herself lifted from the ground. was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a and of illusion. not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the board ship. closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He "My gun! Here they are!" she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic 1.E.9. he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how not at all! Rabble!" instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de audible in the corridor. are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and terrible voice, "Who's there?" We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the "It will be your turn presently!" chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These prison parlance. hour; Cosette thought him hideous. contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and well say six hundred thousand!" "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington prisoner. old man did not seem to perceive the fact. or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the It was not easy to direct his course. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only "I will give it," said the mother. ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor He took her hand. Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the etc. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those vivacious spirits say:-- necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace