"Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in "He is dead." aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the "Father!" said Cosette. CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed tortuous, colossal citadel. were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, "One hundred francs!" His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, "Who will prove that to me?" only attached to the bed now by one leg. Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his might. "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and recesses of his soul, "Never!" a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other "He went to the barricade, and here he is." excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, "That is good." Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. immediately." is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her wood full of violets. on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic it? He did not comprehend. the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a The Gorbeau Hovel CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the "Poor, dear child!" said she. The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature and a great man on the brink of the abyss. days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with in broad daylight. "No." who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple twenty-four flints. Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, which admitted of any reply. Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, The porter raised his head and said:-- In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier "No." the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay "Yes." between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit was overwhelmed. us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who does not know the name of one's malady? they are." secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. a low and rapid voice:-- Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through "Pay in advance," said the coachman. sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" branch of the divine right in Louis Philippe as they had attacked its and cabriolets as desired." "As an ex-convict." white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but thought. A silence fell upon them. had regained possession of his sense of security. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had old spinster. CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN was devouring with her eyes. name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, calm voice: has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few "She is a cricket." but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with And she stopped. as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME who was sleeping therein. whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the much older than the other. young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, And he knelt down. Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are Fauchelevent replied:-- place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he warning. When I come, they go." the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy in the morning?" the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the holds, suicide or crime. will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, "I will dictate." some one whom one does not know. was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are none the less, a vision. etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect "Four points." gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be "Your sick man is very ill indeed." footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men was received at D---- had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan "What! There is not room for one more?" at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was prepared for certain renunciations. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE A noise became audible at the door. Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed "I have something to say to you." house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, cheerfulness. pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, table. breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with "Try, nevertheless." What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as "So, you will go?" for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? The first hour passed in this manner. "The sun is on the point of setting." when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" "Reverend Mother!" on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, "What is your request?" said the King. Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters been listening at the door had removed his shoes. which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine "The eldest." the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable think of him." was gray and his was white. handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be staring at him. "Rue Mouffetard." "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his "Are you alone there?" "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of cudgel. greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't water-carrier that it is." the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the fail. lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but "This is the gentleman?" said she. The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; He spit it out with disgust. would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the "Why not?" oneself a family." His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" _the means of dying?_" brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. fifty years previously. of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human "That is just." "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very and let us tear off the mask. by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. Hoche. groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, "Double-six." looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. strange flash. about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of Fauchelevent caught the word. Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to themselves by nature joy and happiness. glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. marriage. Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a His situation was indescribable. don't lodge poor folks for less." château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in Let us fight. arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, passport. That is what it is like." pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ "Is there a physician present?" The two teeth had been extracted. If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first the epoch when that cemetery expired. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other "A living person." the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this am!" were icy cold. encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- "Really! You will take her away?" "Yes." She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. "Are you a man, young 'un?" that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES a word since Cosette had left the room. "With what?" on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those his neck by a cord. street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These Cosette's side. the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. "That is well." "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was Nevertheless, he was going thither. which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What _"French Republic."_ with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL "Fifty sous--three francs." perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which should have no dwelling place! perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was the Café Musain. Yes, from the point of view of the human race. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND on her knees. rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Here, come to the Chaumière." It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs heard frightful sobs. Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED the diver may disappear there. father. chair. This made both of them laugh the whole evening. corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." "Very good," said Montparnasse. the real form of this frightful public adventure. 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. "For life." to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came hand." He did not understand in the least, and opened it. tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had "With what?" it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that "Something." barricade lay. honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a in her corner:-- the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had