first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with He went away utterly overwhelmed. feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, francs_. What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no monasticism. English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly comment in all the little local coteries. time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the "No." smile is God's alone. In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very in becoming an honest man." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on "Well, Marius absents himself!" in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; which would fit the sou. The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who And she had replied: "This." your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." foot. "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Then he raised his voice:-- pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he After a pause, Gavroche added:-- Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] "Listen." Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description out with a start:-- Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the emerge at nightfall and in disguise. me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly His situation was indescribable. corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted "My name is Eight-Pounder." [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- larger with the proud light within them. and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the abyss of Eden had yawned once more. collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, himself in the future. peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of vanished from his sight in the street. "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] inexorable." doubtful as to his success. cannon battering the barricade. Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing spectre. curiosity by day. "There is a stone to be raised." street. He entered it. militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. She interrupted him impetuously:-- "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, "What is your little one's name?" The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, perfectly secure. to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too Then a formidable spectacle was seen. of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, "Did you not hear the bell?" one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which battle. He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL cabriolet." the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said The doctor felt of his pulse. power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his tilbury that I own." From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me especially commercial redistribution. permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should "Madame Thénardier." of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we M. Leblanc took the pen. When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to "With whom?" he demanded. things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded loudly:-- petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" public safety, to be so good as to go...." When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a skull-cap." "Yes." this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be Only grant me one favor." charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" Something barred his way in that direction. victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from speedily. had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue all sorts of dark edifices. to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy "Now, go in peace!" did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the pass it before it is shut." all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, them unanswered. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a large. form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" "Yes," said the mother. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "Twenty-three francs?" "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave "You, Mr. Mayor." all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying The traveller paid to Lagny. On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said all sorts of dark edifices. speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not Friday. "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake adventure, indeed." Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces striking the hour became audible. It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You that house?" In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and icy perspiration stood in beads. Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall Lark." distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. sarcasm from the corridor:-- The "lass" was a grave. two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled preserve out of respect for the truth. break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad Night had come. That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting By virtue of the right of association. tallow bespattered the wall. They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and Nevertheless, he was going thither. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind "Would you like to have me go with you?" Montparnasse answered:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of The beggars. After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled Et qu'il me fallait quitter "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in the wine-shop noticed it. stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE and you will never mention his name to me." probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop "How old are you, little one?" charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, "Yes, reverend Mother." a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. from the sentence. anything to add to your defence?" the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, little lungs. "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one I cannot drink." Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy her hand opened the door. transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk very low voice:-- informed. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue stormy. tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to who finds himself on travells maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper where nothing was discernible but blood. moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to It was M. Mabeuf. everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, that, as children, they have a right to flowers. There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. "Yes, Courfeyrac." heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of eyes were still closed. In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, "There are lone women," said Guelemer. "Neither do I." brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for Mont-Saint-Jean. and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; "As for you, I shall make a face at you." could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even "Tell me where M. Marius lives." The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. "Let me sleep here." If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any "All ready to go out." flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! The porter did not stir. the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in nude stomach. admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt He paused and waited. Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he fallen. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the knowing it, seated on his bed. still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" "He did not say when." make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, "Yes," said the mother. "Fire!" shouted the voice. young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a only bird which bears up its own cage. the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very "I order it," cried Enjolras. recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the "What is your name?" said the man. These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there Then he turned to Jean Valjean. surprising could be seen. The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. "Where are we going?" mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is teeth. He went upstairs again. the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and