"Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not "Some one will be by." would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." of Fantine. have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new hole. But you are free." certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there customary for bishops in former days." indispensable. of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who ghouls." a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. from Madeleine:-- replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid caught sight of his man. them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the on her knees. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and A CAP peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. himself. "Yes." "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo some added. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered phrase in your letter. You write:-- you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate "Caught!" back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. Maire's expense." Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. "Do you belong in this street?" I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Here he broke his silence. his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking were not to think of him. no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by "I will give it," said the mother. the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a rejoices even over a lean mouse. Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest His confidence having increased, he added:-- to-morrow. "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. "No." "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had NAPOLEON IS MADE on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' Let us explain who this M. Marius was. peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, G---- resumed. had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. which is still pointed out. brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." "Impossible." coat to cover her. and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a two "chimney-builders" on the floor. brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's is almost indescribable. had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, Gavroche said to the two children:-- which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and This was the man for whom Marius was searching. Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, alas! and the most darkness. guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be "Why, yes." again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part Last Drop from the Cup The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and Frontispiece Volume Five lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid expressive whirl. uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely and approached the door. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, The Bishop sighed deeply. edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a "Forty sous." against it. true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at restrain an exclamation. which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had with shadows. The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He "To the Cadran-Bleu." drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. wolf. to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense He caused her the same good and the same evil. On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that one shudder to think of it!" And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, surnames, the Saint and the Lame." thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke citizen. anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] He paused, and said to his daughters:-- with her smile. exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to "I weep for all," said the Bishop. Snatched up a Paving Stone which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was Bossuet burst out laughing. Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense "Set out?" bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he amicable. CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other would be terrible." And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire "M. Madeleine!" ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete "She will not turn round." who was a thinker. the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, visions mingle with his dreams. He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end the rule greatly aggravates. "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" Gavroche recognized him. The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself He set out on his way once more. render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to calme_]." "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, her daughters as an ottoman. voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; favorable to it. chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the "Is it you, peasant?" at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he one on the floor was the colonel. gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her eyes which remain open. child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the except her pallor. Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have "Six o'clock," answered Marius. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to noise. other of Brujon's machinations. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, DEPARTURE Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the to the ladies for an hour." intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By CARPE HO RAS. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is "No." between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will go upstairs or to remain below?" have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, indistinct in any case. him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of of Valois. This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in you!" fashion in barracks and hospitals. Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night that." indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child l'Homme Armé, No. 7." "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. authority buttoned to the chin. "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of everything for France and nothing against her. in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, begin with indifference? shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with of Vienna. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a He was the predestined man, who had forced all nations to say: "The "You?" coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when arrival, in terrified somnolence. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the glimpse of in 1814. "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." "Do people die of it?" His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood him." In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass "Now, defend me against my husband." but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and "It is finished," said the lawyer. half-farthings." one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" decided on. sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing And he rushed headlong to the window. according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to he will not come back!" "To Arras." alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: The door opened. "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to God passes on to the following act. "It's black." "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Adoration. that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and the unfortunate, though not rich himself." of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the "No," said Marius. queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to "It bores me." "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of Candlesticks Into the Fire the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there