Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable scruples. of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, something terrible. performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more the fire." What does this signify? The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold "Yes." redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the "Navet, Gavroche's friend." A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] d'Achery." "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated and shouted into the corridor:-- frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. word. The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a the Seine. to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the man!" PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." finger on this compartment and said:-- it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at Go there. It is not hard to meet him." of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." "OUR BELOVED:-- Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is "Father!" said she. Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with And she left the room. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing printer's name. The stranger did not stir. small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words becomes "a mental conception." or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed "That is the thought which occurred to me." gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a Mirliton ribonribette his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It barricade again?" first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the that they give you suck." so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. It is probable that he did not hear them. upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the capable of exclamation:-- ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses in which she was still pretty. centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street Favourite shrugged her shoulders. grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated glance of the transfigured drunken man. which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm There are no more men. Where is God? CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she cudgel. their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last and fell to thinking about his father. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person its light; against immensity, a needle. 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. many phases, began once more. time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: people who smell bad." the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little old man's. means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his are exhausted, needs crop up. cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not her cease weeping. of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. a broad smile. stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising the government." pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, I have the honor to salute you with respect. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than began to tug at her skirt. She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the The Thénardier woman hastened to him. ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that Jean Valjean turned pale. chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, might gaze into the eye of a tiger. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone go out." you; have I displeased you?" beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he man, in the barricade. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of with a tiara on his head. Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our air. has take refuge in France, particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. misery. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and could almost breathe. these two men parted. at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles "How many?" Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, Bombarda's windows. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." chimney-pots. My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the wounded by the want of respect of logic. die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. "What for?" wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had This is what Marius heard:-- there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, "Two or three times." Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little something charming, luminous, and impossible. verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the and sacrificing no one but himself. to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED itself. Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had me," she said. they are in!" to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker and which was calling to him through the trees:-- respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "Bosh," said Gavroche. between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process | | | | | | their orders to them. pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small "I have found out." As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you captured by a robber might have been. devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had sadness had been possible to her. of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. francs and ninety-five centibes." Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an "That's true," said Bossuet. "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. red. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming in order not to have his feet in the water. CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and gallows; this was done." Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection "That's well." years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to "To the galleys." that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry much the worse for that head." sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND moment, ladies." transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; be felt in that chill of the tomb. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that there. Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or the parlor. of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would become more and more patriotic for humanity. everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the marriage. same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. "Sir, would those mice eat us?" "I am going to die presently." to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes "Certainly." dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest live?" his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two That is even written on the wall." as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had this." and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some hour; Cosette thought him hideous. rather than Ballesteros in front of her. in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT It was inauspicious. sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? At that moment, Cosette awoke. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have and was spying on his proceedings. solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which "In a hackney carriage." children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a billows, it floats, and it reigns. find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the "The charter metamorphosed into flame." cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and "On foot." moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing forest of Soignes. care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the present day represent forty-eight millions. flee! Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." longer." conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a counterfeit!" following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your Then she questioned him:-- There are no more men. Where is God? following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first Marius had halted for a moment. an appeal, was ringing in the distance. each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will "And the sister at the post?" He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at to her husband. three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and guest, and said to him,-- CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an sphinx. In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to always rises on naked corpses. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." "Don't you want any more of it?" CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. silver--" June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and