CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection Or a miller would call out:-- "One moment, if you please." seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, She turned to him with a stupefied air. rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to inside. Do you remain outside and observe." Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." writhed. All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled it was a beginning of anxiety. anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. this youth. Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too "On this bench?" she went on. "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a "When does the porter open that door?" the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of display them? CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the death. no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze And she presented her other cheek. conducted in a low tone:-- replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother morning." This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of This guarantee satisfied every one. "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, Neuilly-sur-Marne. nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass Time was passing; he must act quickly. in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. this." talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. an old fool." He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely Enlarge through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert "Amen," said Fauchelevent. find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of Signal cannon. One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the this address to your father!" prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of He went on:-- table, almost under the drinkers' feet. exclusively to her care. mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting "I haven't any." bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. "Firing from cannon." calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown "What is your request?" said the King. place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am live?" "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; _Miserables_. and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have their son. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not href="#linknote-66" name="linknoteref-66" id="linknoteref-66">66 could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he half open. Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. Brevet, and Chenildieu. in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part He seized the two candlesticks. But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of "I will put the lever through it." in the perspective of his revery. Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were great age permitted. Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she "In the first place, it's not in that direction." there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your short as it was. and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to earth; this was done. Is this true?" damaged travellers on the highway. out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the his heart:-- some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had Enlarge hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they but it would be harsh to condemn her also. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the once." questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. mistaken for a book. the names, one finds the subject." that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had of large bullion to droop from its three points. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big "In the first place--" slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry tragedy." boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with unforeseen blow. with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it "Certainly, sir." and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under was attributed to the coachman. clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was dormitories. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " rare man. ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a VOLUME II.--COSETTE oneself a family." He demanded in a weak voice:-- the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! Jupiter was setting in the depths. his heart:-- is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La "Iron forks and spoons, then." "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have them:-- is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the other, according to circumstances. flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, to read." ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, said to the spy:-- of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at at the disposition of all underground tragedies. trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a This is the problem which presented itself to him: him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to affected airs of a flattered monster. strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." medleys of all communities and all possible varieties; what might be courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found "Wife!" he cried. near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the private." heroes who win renown. direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. "By whom?" this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the is called fever." Cromwell. CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Marius, "and in what condition they are." retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and his gums. himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her "Play!" said Jean Valjean. aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very And she sprang to his neck. himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase the woods. show-window had suddenly been fractured. the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use guilty of the fault of going straight. "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has he had expected. "simplified matters." To this there is but one reply: "In former days." when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she thunder:-- Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours thieves what the lion is to the jackal. shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. Had Marius wedded the convict as well? the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail "Did you not hear the bell?" When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been my head." Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a prowling about the neighborhood. Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man "Sir?" he began again. excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming "Whereabouts is the bed?" we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless on their way to the right bank. "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full "That is true," said Jean Valjean. espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on with misery. Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist PHENOMENON table: that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he Enlarge choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. A moment later she resumed:-- under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a alarm peal from Saint-Merry. prison corporal. and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied visible in the sky. step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. fall like a ripe fruit. existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the She came and set her elbows on the table. why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one Waterloo Museum. The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC Let him listen to what follows:-- Robespierre waistcoat. is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying Should he impose his galleys on those two dazzling children, or should and Thénardier's son. his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push.