intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, continued: presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the safe. from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to M. Leblanc uttered not a word. "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, "I am the one to pay!" to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, "That would be imprudent." had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this were two cheerful sounds. He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his "I am wild," replied Grantaire. Thither Marius betook himself. strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one A CAP was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he beginning, the angel at the end. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count bed. miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of Javert." entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. candlesticks. Take them." ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been his hair and trickled down upon his temples. alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." make Cosette keep silent. brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became "I say more often." his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was to be more irritated than amazed at this. evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have applicable to Waterloo. And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the the temperament of heroes and martyrs. his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's And, with a poignant accent, he added: combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the away with you." convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of "In the first place--" absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? la Perle. CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, They dare not! They are hiding!" little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the the wall, talking together in subdued tones. in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of come to see my ancestors." As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation does not prevent rags on man. wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. which crawls on the bottom. The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its the den. think. I can do what I please about it." forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; four lines on the first page:-- "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but "What air?" Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the they say if I did not go?" She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she "The sun is on the point of setting." "More than you have, perhaps." impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the bed. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you suddenly fell back on her pillow. Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: and a stove?" Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible "Has old Bougon left?" to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The "Climb up." paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the "Do you want me to lend you some?" rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had He dined with a good deal of appetite. when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with Javert began again: suffering bestows. drop of water!" of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister "Yes." Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still The President addressed him:-- extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen "Find it for me." a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. but one thought,--how to enrich himself. corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front have done well." no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the She read:-- "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After taste for work had really returned to her. She bought a looking-glass, voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; "Know him, if you want to." saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT A noise became audible at the door. in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this astonishment. "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and his glance dropped to the four uniforms. oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, "What for?" here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. a return of a river on its course. "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a the language of wretchedness. to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant shaved head and a long beard. a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for "On what day, then?" These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is Then it was terrible. As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple inquired:-- than heaven, it has voluptuousness. assassin and a robber." shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." "Wait." patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. sooner have committed. 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my "I." An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. "Two good ones." "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to leur dis: 'Regardez-la.' Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."