silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. serene. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from there. the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about "I can't." warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one better." once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of in the grass; "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of "What is the matter with you?" determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme yesterday. it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go Enlarge almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer possess no transition state. "To-morrow." naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of depths!] who still recall the most minute details. not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, And, after a pause, he added: my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who terrible thing! "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who Government." Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their He replied with a smile:-- Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was laughing:-- gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, man like that, who had the air of a girl!" the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement "We are in it, too." indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had had been a success during the something more than two years which he had living, and of dying." "All out!" shouted Enjolras. supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had night: Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all "Why?" your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." lower part of the body from injury. had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled "You say nothing, Brujon?" had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] "Who, sir?" tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because milk for the magnanimous. stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du doubt already far away. "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius had turned carter. "What! He was?" playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. This word struck Marius. about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor "Two napoleons." liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the You will deliver Cosette to this person. MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in And then he fell to weeping bitterly. "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening compliments. What is the meaning of this?" There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in Marius asked:-- military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. he had inwardly addressed to himself. seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which Exelmans quitted the procession. his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." explain it. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to "Are you less cold now?" said he. her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where "In my lodge." few minutes. Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of glance fell directly down into the barricade. shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. within the year. and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just The prioress stared at him. mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras. the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems "He is following me." day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. And she offered him her cheek. the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons. The King has Roquelaure, the before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How run in debt there. an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not wear a rosary at their side. the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty FANTINE." considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut him. "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at the English battery. button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. midst of men all naked! difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING "Go to the devil!" cried Thénardier. "When we've turned the house upside England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. the order. him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at "You are free." with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They misfortune!" No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, "It was Madame Thénardier." custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in Jondrette exclaimed:-- make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to Cosette." "You know that a mother died this morning?" Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll This only caused an increase of his stupor. the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door should choose the barbarians. it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had resounded through the barricade. children. M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to from Vincennes. he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" and fell to thinking about his father. under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. "That little fellow." "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." "To the galleys." The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She some diversion shall arise. permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were "She is a cricket." itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le And Tholomyès continued:-- bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the "Yes," said the mother. testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas "Six o'clock precisely." indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as And again she offered him her brow. pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who redoubled their pace. a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." belly!" "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: became ferocious. he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he in?" woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and you! You are an ingrate!" idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, there. his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the encountered something strange. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, "Who goes there?" ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal Valjean. sombre genius, Epidotas. is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to all these happy people. "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not "Yes." clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the and fell to thinking about his father. He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most "What are you up to to-night?" wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his wished to retain her features for eternity. the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not and shouting:-- From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where resounded through the barricade. remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in troops were re-loading their arms. designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the He tapped again. All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only a dog!" at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, francs." bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we "Will that be all?" completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an So saying, the usher turned his back. restrain an exclamation. out where he had been. Then a formidable spectacle was seen. "Down with you!" said the man. considering it under all its aspects. "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits The carriage drove off. haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the Marius kept the pistol in his hand. who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his the South. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in Then he added, wildly:-- adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the Dépêche. (Make haste.) The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would possibilities. "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. to the general of the Lazarists. alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to _The Mother_. How is that, my child? praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events could not doubt. unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had "What man?" when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- Enlarge the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." Valjean. A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved,