ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. the smile ended in a tear. to you." nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one "Burst!" embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but "Say on." "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of there were no longer any lanterns. Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme an expression of thanks. On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was that children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, for the outcome. He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- "And what is his name?" "There." intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat curiosity. between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be "Something must be lowered into it." "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "No." distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which "Dismiss the carriage!" valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. "Yes." the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she and devoted air. It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next wherever I am." Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied This is what Marius heard:-- direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the he said to him: it. Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats inexorable." attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred alluding to the landing at Cannes. to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and sphinx. Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited CHAPTER V--PRAYER business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I "Father, are you satisfied?" Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was this melancholy strophe:-- The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 at a time. These men watched me pass. very softly. no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really ball. be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual some disorder beneath it; stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. me!" door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has something." knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is it. His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, possibility had presented itself. satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had the invisible spectre of the Bastille. Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there understanding of his position. "Agreed." seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, history they will not be met with any more. himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all head that this was not so. ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the human eye cannot see. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into his savage head. rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force He inquired:-- The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, the parish of so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. Cosette." been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who "All! All!" which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; were icy cold. And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or They bore addresses. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull is taking his departure. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, cartridges left in the barricade." apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a "You?" contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where the man in there?" This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was "You are doing well." "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of Why was he going to Arras? BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. He recoiled and stammered:-- theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will serpent's change of skin. "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius The government was there purely and simply called in question. There Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, Marius went his way. and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement the man who had built it. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, began. the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, his eyes, but Madame Albertine had relapsed into her immobility. A something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. shoes from a dead man. chamber." it. illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had He went on:-- without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he added with a shudder:-- impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both "Take your revenge." making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the knocking the house down." a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable Whither? had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to elder Jondrette girl. uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" And rapidly approaching his wife:-- started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: evolved from that word. "How much shall you need?" cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the And she presented her other cheek. angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the Marius, with a load upon his breast, was on the point of descending At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The recesses of his soul, "Never!" In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it "You are he!" said Enjolras. society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with CHAPTER I to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi expiation. a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a thither. ears. the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain clothes for thy new-born babe.' a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than Jean Valjean shook his head. by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by the door. upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an "Sir?" love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you of hurling a rock. mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" resolution. from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I tired her chest, and she coughed a little. but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" to an unhappy soul. He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with face. the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its him. and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by trouble to get this one." whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I CHAPTER IV--A though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. "No." "You will see." street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped existence. customary for bishops in former days." Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. from the foils. still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded humanity." "Yes," said the man. A man stood before him. had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that quit." Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it "I have been driven away everywhere." of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented "By the way!" light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the to read." precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an society. with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only Ont le même destin; One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" "Why all?" said Enjolras. commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. lived to search the pockets of passers-by. of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated the clouds of dawn,--it is not fitting that all this should be narrated, should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has characters, with a pencil:-- to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the inquired of him:-- narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting profession." men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café the trouble of the world!" "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter