menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very the old parties. which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement He made a sign of the head in the negative. Marius had halted for a moment. Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to alias Deux-Milliards." religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the "Certain men." "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be the abysses of the universe! between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; Slang ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not "Monsieur Fabantou, yes, that is it. I remember." of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away one of the divisions of the social order. Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. bronze. who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, of the burial of young Lallemand. To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for a thousand advances to him. He refused. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: The two children followed close on his heels. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep visions mingle with his dreams. "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS calm voice: count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at meat-axe:-- sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the "You were not at the school day before yesterday." to save M. Madeleine. populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; study. he raised his eyes:-- the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize seemed very pretty indeed to him. fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the "And where is your lodging?" "Hey?" said he. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "Which concerns me?" He had just found his clap of thunder. denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining gray of the sky. furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, "Hey?" and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most interdicted. "A day, and a good long one." modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has of Fantine. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the "In my lodge." He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the marmot-box on his back. entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. pair. and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was resemble shaved heads. "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied And he burst out laughing. other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." cannot scale a perpendicular wall with a child in one's arms. Who was "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. hand." order to live, I will not steal a name." holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century stage-manager of such conversations. in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. On the following day Father Madeleine refused. why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean announce to you, my fine fellows!" all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of always refused to men. fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. "At Saint-Lazare." women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at approached her hastily. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice two problems must be combined and made but one. denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had and black with mud. the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an maw of the clouds. was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw What does this signify? chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, than ever. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her CARPE HO RAS. charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that To God. ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a Evil One." years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard should be glad if this eulogium were merited. had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she Polignac!'" Enlarge made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the "Do you know the chapel?" them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not it. two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. des Prêcheurs. they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost "To sit on." vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there What conclusion was to be drawn from this, except that they all come given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This ceasing to gaze at Cosette. "Cosette." nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but "He was a convict." scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love address, indeed!" This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. Rousseau." one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the "What is the matter with you?" "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of "I shall call her Catherine," she said. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing the Seine. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, "And what's her name?" assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the "So, you will go?" takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed The man replied:-- was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the is going, let's follow them, hey?" There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and However, the inn-keeper did not give up. dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in eyes,--these men conversed in slang. And Cosette answered:-- himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- chair. The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his reader's mind. to the gloomy horizon. the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied so long as he has money?" aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the other." face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us "Yes." the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved "It was your play, I believe?" This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his with a tiara on his head. He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. was to go on eating the government's bread! Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little ill? Do you suffer?" Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I reached the Richefeu smoking-room. further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. was forced to seat himself on the banquette in order to alter Marius' The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an shed a little light. of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly near the heap of old iron with their feet. witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to Let us drink." CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the "I'm with you," said he. Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That went and came from one room to another. knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally And he laid his head down on the mat again. action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche and fared as best it might. calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the This is what she read. His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I morning on the ground floor. misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up frightful gulfs! abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make father? Why should he! "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics "Because not one will go away." "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances And if he let go his hold? They recognized Javert's voice. little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had Fauchelevent repeated:-- This rope fell at their feet. blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. every new wind. to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone interdicted. and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night!