charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, redoubled their pace. mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and set out on your journey to-morrow." to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." wait until they are in the street before replying." At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned cart-wheels. "I am an agent of the authorities." "Open, nevertheless." manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and Marius assumed a grave tone: in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an "Of that young lady." "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de being very rare in vegetation. "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or A moment later she resumed:-- hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social "And what was the question?" a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had hour." What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced "Why?" furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, He plunged into the silent streets. circumstances. love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one ferocious beast. It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his With all their money back returned." very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have passports. She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional He answered:-- the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. conversation:-- from Vincennes. entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like "Why?" with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds He raised his glance to the crucifix. hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is "What else remains?" them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked "L'Aigle." Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy darkness and waiting for him. day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be "Utterly naked! What's the father?" yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old a black hole. the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which Saint-Marcel. to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert gone to get that mite of a child?" account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder marshes. dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and of corpses which should return to embrace the living. bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but was transfigured into Christ. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My on the horizon. seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight He was absorbed, in fact. conjectures of the indictment. CHAPTER IV--A about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; gleams. He said to the lad:-- "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To And he straightened up his crooked back. poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius He went on:-- this melancholy strophe:-- covered with blood. While tearing down the banner he had received a There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at He paused, and then resumed:-- it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal They ascended to the first floor. seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the near the Jena bridge." cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that majesty. keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at father. myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he Rousseau." Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" as much as possible. none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One the houses. mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and confession and inflict the penance aloud. habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from talking aloud to me." prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should abdicates from suffering? indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which her seat at his left. What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a his heart:-- more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These combats the inexhaustible. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say drop of sweat on his loins. "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by and cocked it. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" Cosette With Letter All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he To whom? himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a your hair tumbled thus." weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt meagre income which had survived no one knew how. Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw "Under the altar." all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The January 21. it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. who are old women now. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a "Because, my daughter." there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a "Get into bed," replied the man. "You certainly are here." cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made "Fire!" replied Enjolras. it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think shudder:-- The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled Then he returned to the barricade and said: it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. hungry? conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. turned to his wife:-- plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the Being." as though he had just heard it:-- his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- in order not to have his feet in the water. "Certainly, sir." "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. "Too late." poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du After a pause he went on:-- Such was the situation. "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." conduct this creature to jail." motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly Montfermeil. One day Cosette said to him:-- She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. The investigation had begun. Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception all day; it is probable that he was feverish. a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which than heaven, it has voluptuousness. This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this yonder?" to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts towers of Notre Dame. world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" he had been appointed Bishop of D---- "Reverend Mother!" hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it "I can't quit the vehicle." destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the "I am the convent grave-digger." greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer "Why not?" through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery love. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in bronze. square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. "That's enough, my jewel." [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge M. Madeleine rose. himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of those ruffians did assassinate him!" back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green herself that she must know what it contained. brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night "Have you knocked at that one?" Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE himself next door to a sepulchre. The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no The moon was sinister over this plain. front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers l'Homme Armé. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' This arises from the fact that she is an artist. these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right "The plate is quite full." little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly As she ran she felt like crying. We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. that case it skimmed the streets. Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the "The coffin of the administration." his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and There was nothing in this wooden shoe. researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the "Ah!" said the grandfather. case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined "--Dier." CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both lips to it. you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque barricade, all breathless, saying:-- In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in Often he adds carelessly:-- have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were intoxicated young man. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, Fauchelevent replied:-- Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial wretch, by that innocent being. The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of ask of you." finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history,