under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he Had Marius wedded the convict as well? belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only The stranger gazed intently at him. of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and recall. decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the staircase. "Father Fauvent!" sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared "I will bring you something." too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to with the night. "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen the chimney-piece. survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little Laveuve. complaints." angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were "I was praying to the martyr there on high." "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And they passed: account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand longer there. "I do not wish to disturb the court further," resumed Jean Valjean. "I "For my part, I shall not return." The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally "He will die," said the porter. spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. and too prodigal or too protecting for others. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements of Valois. in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, bored without me. I am going, it is well." Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, lips to it. bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what had been there:-- there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, on our heads." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was "I have ten francs left," said Marius. brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore poisoning London. on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy "Why?" which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that "That is well, Father Fauvent." to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean "They will rob you, Monseigneur." which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" Titlepage Volume Five The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. point. oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the "What do you want?" a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended Gavroche replied: sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole Tholomyès went on:-- pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is over and over again. that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of They replied: almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a lose a single syllable:-- Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics household. escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived Words like the following could be heard there:-- "A secret?" glance behind him. An instant later he had disappeared. head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the that institution was like. The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." The door opened. terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great abysses. "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is backs turned to these two. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say sadness had been possible to her. to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." him that M. Fauchelevent is here." of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. arrest me. You know that well enough." rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered Let us go on. But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: Marius. He resumed:-- At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- And he burst out laughing. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. It was the old woman's little boy. other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " on high the statue of a people. left for him to desire. a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost pavement. Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing I who have pointed him out to her." Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had affluent. On that side lay safety. you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, "Is it all over, Jondrette?" been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."