society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair light of earth. five-story building which separated the two court-yards. apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence. wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he the trouble of the world!" that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, can have me arrested when he likes." to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians could be read in the folds of the flag. Such was the situation. usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the serious. two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That needle. the real form of this frightful public adventure. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He "I will pay." to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed in the sky. "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me Cosette's dreams. violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see which admitted of any reply. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The shiver. depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or "Immediately," responded the host. he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, men, and smoke. "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all as much as possible. means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And calm gravity:-- This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the clothes for thy new-born babe.' of its pavement, the four uniforms. rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with of jaws yawned on the barricade. dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had himself with Boulatruelle. grandfather resumed:-- could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should Words like the following could be heard there:-- chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute was "an egoist." The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his fire in less than a quarter of an hour. From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. "Peace is happiness digesting." for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING "Bosh," said Gavroche. those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those The wig-maker turned pale. . ." A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." and as bold as fire." with misery. taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am with his nature. As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good "There is going to be a shot to fire." idea:-- became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and together. of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's child who is carried. 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is He reflected for a moment. it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these The man resumed his writing. Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these any cost, insisted. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the This information given, Gavroche added: "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was teeth. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs "Here is a mattress!" seemed very pretty indeed to him. Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold "Will you open, yes or no?" tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" well say six hundred thousand!" while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron fold it." surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for suppose a man is to live?" who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and hand, which made one start. These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Jean Valjean reached the outlet. bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." notable portion of its extent. gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He female Thénardier. to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the repeated Marius. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious One day Cosette said to him:-- alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, morning." Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often "I am wild," replied Grantaire. The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and to attribute to them all possible perfections. himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; "What little girls?" _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. The man's voice resumed:-- CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, Marius had retreated gently. fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two hear. inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- of that frightful malady, for lack of succor. I am content." to-morrow morning." observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that caterpillars. be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or glimpse of in 1814. wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, "Hey?" said Gavroche. result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure M. Gillenormand resumed:-- had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in bourgeois. he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every his gun went off in the air. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. room of the Café Musain. CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What razor and the sword." the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the greater thing is there?" made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. lady-finger potatoes were so good!" the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the him. which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not "With me? Nothing," said he. "That's it." "I think the likeness is strong." Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any he would have expired with grief. evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting had run back to Toulon. erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- This only caused an increase of his stupor. any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the called _double pickings_. profound anxiety. in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of BOOK SECOND--THE FALL man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which There is ecstasy in agony. will be if I do not denounce myself." hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young in the perspective of his revery. is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than "That I may blow that man's brains out." corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven inquiring for the mayor. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot Let us explain who this M. Marius was. laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- "We have been looking everywhere for that!" first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming Marius' timid and reserved nature. morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words frown. rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list Thénardier resumed: the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical crouching down like a terrified dog. wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." This is the way things went:-- all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on "No." The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with just fallen asleep. necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things perfectly, and replied:-- house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional woman had done all this without being conscious of it. protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred immediately." in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here The moon was sinister over this plain. finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no with an air of reproach. noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned Cosette: centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet "Me!" said Jean Valjean. The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and returned quite late at night. "Then his identity was established?" folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. that our intentions are not evil." Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. powerful in his crime. man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who To God. Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." balance of light and darkness. gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately Marius gazed intently at him: "That I wish to marry." had beheld her garter. beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people "He is coming in a fiacre." King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce coat." He plunged into the silent streets. of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before by the fire. constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. reserve behind Napoleon. to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending recognition of the prisoner. CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head.