large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything took place. Thénardier continued:-- turned out in default of payment. his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was crushed!" seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which "Yes." the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the two brats rendered some shock necessary. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These muttered: from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not a black hole. "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the dog who finds his master again. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. something." Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a "That is well." He had a certain sensation of cold. to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- them back." do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that "Will he return this evening?" The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone become august. He had just expired. Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- though they had known beforehand where that figure was. "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, could hear the octogenarian breathe. of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of "There are the little girls." Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous appearance in battle array at the end of the street. Bossuet burst out laughing. drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I Courfeyrac took his arm:-- grandfather resumed:-- one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Jean Valjean stammered: things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities "What's your name, portress?" street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the the right which every man has to open or shut his door. deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there the pediment like a fractured leg. Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers razor and the sword." quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that elder Jondrette girl. Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of shall see hereafter," he thought. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac not ill. continued:-- of honor as to what they are perusing. a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. Then he exclaimed:-- "And to hold your peace about everything!" drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier itself was protected by a metal case. and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on "There is the sun." of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the your hair tumbled thus." Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be "Yes." she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a attitude of contemplation. even in the case of a civic murder, even in a murder for liberation, if BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe Fauchelevent replied:-- remain?" road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." "I tell you that it is she. You will see." "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, held by a glance. compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and others; a second later, all six were reunited. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The these two men parted. four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was "Know him, if you want to." always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he latter thinks a limb is broken. athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the England because he had business there. Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce question. to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to "Now I own your work; play, my child." shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb was told to Jean Valjean. moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made impressions. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks serious. "That one?" said his wife. Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized dismiss the fiacre." "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. "I will breathe." they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other Titlepage Volume One Jean Valjean remained alone. garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. converted into a lawyer. "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. She thought no more about it. village of Austerlitz. well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in "From the spring in the forest." of the street. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered wheeled round. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it him; the perspiration was pouring from him. would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the M. Madeleine replied gently:-- story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would faith. tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the "Six." "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. hairs, against the sky. "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors "Come, now! the surprise?" there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" unbearable. A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of blood-curdling and terrible than that enigmatical form accomplishing CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let their shrewdness:-- judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, And she laughed. The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not violent. "But there is none in the place." And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in vague blue light. babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began Marius could not repress a cry of joy. "You have been a soldier?" Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid wished to caress and thank it. The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting Javert on the Hunt "Six." honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse "M. Marius what?" by it. "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder offered his breast. "Nabbed!" said he. The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a "How many are there of them?" "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that "I have made an enormous mistake." England because he had business there. taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side He went on:-- dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the and cabriolets as desired." seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged "What will you give me?" The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he Why? Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took "Oh! would that I could die!" set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" the third; this is what remained:-- blue eyes aged four and five years:-- applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the "to-day I have a mattress of stone." moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it My most respectful complements, winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His