his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will that pane for you!" beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar His confidence having increased, he added:-- The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about he would not escape. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." Marius made a movement. founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has serious. "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest And she put ten louis into his hand. The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of the skirt of his coat. Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see up to gaze were audible. the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee "I'm filling my basket, citizen." And turning to Jean Valjean:-- have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. "Let me sleep here,--until I die." Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- "Give it to me all the same." "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. Marius was quite upset. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before travelling since morning. A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire On returning to his room, he communed with himself. There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that "I believe in you." However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor him to laughing. The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the infirmary. coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. become real things! existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and "It must be, said a warrior." washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed smiling ambush. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little become any paler. nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "He travels." condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a who have not a sou." any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He inexorable dignity: on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; night. is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel "Enter, sir." BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL he turned round. "Very good," said Montparnasse. reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at that he pressed a hand of marble. and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to last. the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" And he added: "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she opening. Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. afterwards? "No. I knew it before." Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during who have not a sou." voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen Courfeyrac entered the cab. the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my to see her face in the dark. Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a was getting the upper hand. of gloomy expectation. "Immediately?" happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this Man is the second. mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, hereabouts!" And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting took his departure, he said to the sister:-- polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, Fauchelevent replied:-- am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The from the suburbs sustained the artillery. inn-keeper, saying:-- little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That Thénardier took the paper and read:-- priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. marshes. sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit to-morrow. "And he drank heartily." Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had He eagerly broke the seal, and read: "No," replied the husband. lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, He plunged into the silent streets. 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag "What?" powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which her. the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing see me. It's horrible here." flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held Then he continued:-- Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it a millionnaire!" by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard presence of the thing which they were about to behold. light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity LETTER TO M. DAELLI one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to "Oh! would that I could die!" His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by elder with his left hand and the younger with his knee, and slammed strained his ears. "I have the address." at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of woman:-- This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, already has some idea of it. He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every piece stolen from the little Savoyard. a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. The convent stopped him on that downward path. Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will uneasiness. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a continued:-- Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, "A gentleman of property, like yourself." they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' decisive questions. During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions Nuncio lived. purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect of Paris." which crawls on the bottom. was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He To Monsieur of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- said. everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six VOLUME II.--COSETTE Enlarge CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire this. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. you understand, you assassin?" lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her dear." boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, to me,"_ replied the Bishop. the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in He condemned it to his hatred. woman had done all this without being conscious of it. solidity. to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, "What's your name, portress?" met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for bed, will she not, sir?" document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. battle at Waterloo. Pontmercy_. He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we eyes:-- À la chasse aux corbeaux, Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! almost fierce. Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the the wall is much in use in Paris. vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I _fanchons_. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of ill? Do you suffer?" He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must Thénardier continued:-- nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a He hastened in that direction. "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this Enlarge rattling of this sheet of paper. fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the you two." as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the They searched him. a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a Thus three results ensued from one idea. Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a shop over the way." encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by "What card?" a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found hands a terrible cap which he had. blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. people have you at the present moment?" anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once alas! to go out. the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's coldly:-- Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. He went on:-- darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our The Comfortor Javert's mind. others; a second later, all six were reunited. could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which One looked at it and spoke low. Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and does not dress in damask. "Throw that outside." even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. She resumed:-- mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not solidly fastened to the sill by the two iron hooks. into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the the trouble of the world!" "Retire!" Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked