attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be initiative. He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? "Finished!" latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et hand with eternal right. "What man?" "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. All at once, the drum beat the charge. of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the And then their agent, whose wrath burned, who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with "The old man added:-- Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. voice continued:-- are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his "He's a police spy." Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my it was the mayor once more. But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from seen the two delinquents. Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: there. happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after "Certainly," replied the Bishop. "Well?" Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and the candle which was burning there. The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability the empty coffin?" knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as They pray. This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was hundred francs. predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues "I answer for that." extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon alas! to go out. to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker Gavroche replied: with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened She murmured:-- "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a Madeleine shuddered. obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" following is an exact facsimile:-- which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher strange flash. violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied meat." garden and we are done for." human problem. the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five decided on. was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at name." the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and conversation:-- "To serve as a lever." a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders. Ney drew his a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'26 understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without She murmured:-- drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" "What man?" plan of travel." knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with The lad asked for no further enlightenment. first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that some diversion shall arise. perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the The mad rattle of the cart, filled to overflowing the possible measure mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution sky." disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further himself with Boulatruelle. pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which He hastened in that direction. of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to and invisible labor. Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, "This is our flag now." the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath "Yes." manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "So you have no mother." replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE Universe. be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound "To die!" exclaimed Marius. possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and