"See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that touching thing. Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame large tree. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable my children, to you, my innocent creatures! Is it nothing to hold one's Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and disorganization. Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous Gavroche. Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain "He is a dead man," said Javert. be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are the song by killing the singer. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. "Théodule, your grandnephew." evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's one. Blachevelle persisted:-- But here are the conditions." thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing "Of course," said Jean Valjean. pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the And she put ten louis into his hand. Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. "Enter my wine-shop." M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined "Granted," said Javert. _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the "Does no one volunteer?" he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Refoncez dans vos culottes The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard ambuscades of providence! These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India living, and of dying." Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the and cocked it. strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind He is alone. His name is God. "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not Javert had not uttered a single cry. come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the "What are rats?" bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful itself in horror, must end in killing war. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon of thirst, but the eye is gratified. Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has "Sir?" he began again. Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the teeth:-- "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And Babet responded this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, She resumed:-- "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. heavy. understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" "Yes! Only speak!" "A certain--What did you say the name was?" Jean Valjean suspected nothing. "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to "Who was it that was eaten?" Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a "We have been looking everywhere for that!" condemned to death. embarrassed his still timid mind. three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to "Good, you are a clever girl." sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and first step in a staircase leading back to life. sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. "Have you it about you?" had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal Cosette With Letter but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, "Of course," said Jean Valjean. He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the farce." with a good deal of acrimony. policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their certainly unexpected. seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- She seized the coin. Courfeyrac with a laugh. the first man is desirous of shirking. through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. with that?] anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, And the whole barricade clapped their hands. there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the battalions of his brigade." determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front age," said he. "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun deliver the letter. Give it here." the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. no one was aware of it. of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his And turning to Bigrenaille:-- the human form. honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on obeyed." "Where's your house?" to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to She interrupted him impetuously:-- strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance Then he went out. "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. "'They are more fatigued than I.' small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I Enlarge occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love the unknown. seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned sepulchre. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. It seems as though all that water were hate. his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were The blow told. sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what He tapped a third time. Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at The Bishop resumed mildly:-- it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood away with me." fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would I was furious, and I informed against you." and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, than heaven, it has voluptuousness. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE in that suicide. have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against Christopher Columbus. war. He would have Cosette or die. little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he meagre supper. on. have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an AUSTERLITS Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in unprecedented one to him. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. "No splashing of the wounded," he said. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed themselves with it. _It was new; it gave them a change_. Candid reasons "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that And she caught her father round the neck again. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of view, why do we speak of civil war? a serious man: 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The works. See paragraph 1.E below. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous lighted?" This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; The child entered the hut. "Why do you not go to the inn?" one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. daughter!" posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into Cosette made no reply. The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" the empty coffin?" Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color happened?" Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move presence of the thing which they were about to behold. back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The Gavroche began to laugh. are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT returning very gradually to hatred. Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent Waterloo. I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing with the night. at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on VICTOR HUGO. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for sprouting on Cosette. At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray all day; it is probable that he was feverish. That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one milk for the magnanimous. there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH he added: "Little fellow yourself." and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write It is hard to miss the last cake. All at once he paused. formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner She turned away as in shame and indignation. She would gladly have Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning some one whom one does not know. "Lovely things we will buy himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. "A widow,"37 said Babet. exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker times, by the deep breaths of eternity. though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order eyes. half-open door, made sure that he was praying. but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, mean?" their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The in tone: of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert speed." Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she