him; the perspiration was pouring from him. will be here to-morrow." haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the stage-manager of such conversations. fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" render him still more wild. resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is Enjolras shook his head and replied: As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had homeless children who could pass through it. alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level very low tone:-- Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face relics of the past. was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole Thénardier replied:-- made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent laugh and sing. to-morrow morning." It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. went on:-- francs_. deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with "But she will hear." three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on not count for something in his approach to perfection. "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of "Cut his throat." Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which feet, without a movement. peasant's head. swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." doubtful as to his success. passports. moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one "Yes." shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. intestine? The sewer. ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to me the way." but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. himself:-- ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see and was spying on his proceedings. speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with will go." might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large by it. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. with a bewildered air. air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the "God will inspire us," said he. the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and be understood. the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I motionless and speechless. its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as "What is it?" resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's bass. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. not count for something in his approach to perfection. does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in semicircle over the hills along the horizon. fine, fresh plaster. except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our with his finger on his lips. said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends time. I prefer to go barefoot." cannon. merino gown. From these two things combined, the public power without, individual He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing made him see light. anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of preparing. range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a Fauchelevent replied:-- lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his and some knaves. thanked the traveller. one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists made him see light. in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a arranged, reverend Mother?" Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. "Oh! Why?" "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and the mendicant on the highway:-- is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when "Fauchelevent." until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down word Will. That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally Villiers. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and Javert began again: "Quick," said he. the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great "Heavy?" follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his circumstances. only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill This rope fell at their feet. windows of the third story. among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred adventure. Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian "I don't know." "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, "What?" he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example "So you are going to travel together?" Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the in accord. shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are thread. daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn He tapped again. lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. "Yes." himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled twelve thousand verses with a battle. supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean silence. BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant was getting the upper hand. She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie rat_ in his hand. foreseeing that he should not dine. If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it made its appearance at the window of the coupé. bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was resembled hesitation, broke it. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I coat." is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those from the furrow, and disease from the stream. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. jostling together in his brain. His trouble was so great that he could factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the glanced around the room in a sort of terror. Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, Phrygian cap. instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed probity. the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, born in Paris. ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon education of girls. be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. arms and said:-- "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which The father replied: CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! CHAPTER VI--WAITING the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. not come from there. sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of Tartuffe after confession. In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the "When does the porter open that door?" was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes "Well, I don't mean that you shall." Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in than hovels. these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld "Well?" could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists Cosette's dreams. "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and He wrote:-- of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a tired her chest, and she coughed a little. more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never out his candle. she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone "Where do you live, little one?" depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak other of Brujon's machinations. of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the days." them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek the children dispersed like a flock of birds. coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to him that M. Fauchelevent is here." bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. CHAPTER II--MARIUS Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, window. "And what was the question?" granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA A cannon made its appearance. bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes "She is going on three." As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's "We are going to fling the government to the earth." vague and sleepy smile. no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you great. the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave great treats. something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES CART remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, 87." The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This when she said to Jean Valjean:-- age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The leagues in extent. CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He the four lines which follow:-- Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way