which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden Roses have this advantage or disadvantage over women, that the traces these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. "What are you doing here?" garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving Marius shuddered. handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he strength to stammer:-- suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" strange flash. to sing: he was that convict." they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. "I say no, my goo--" of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not the garden. wall. earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, Refoncez dans vos culottes earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, good odor. opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had hair. "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the had regained possession of his sense of security. stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk *** START: FULL LICENSE *** dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and the most natural manner in the world. the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for virgin. through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this "Take a look at that man!" say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a see me. It's horrible here." gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Rue Clocheperce; Magnon was seized, as was also Mamselle Miss; and all necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed "We have apples in the apple-room." aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love by the same hand. help them from outside. true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is At last, one day when she was in the garden, she heard poor old met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen was lying. sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor "Father Fauvent!" halting-place. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to horror. of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; quarter. Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with only her portfolio and her blotting-book. figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that Cosette." mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, smile. clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that front of that vision of joy. persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the Brevet dropped his eyes. Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French his glance dropped to the four uniforms. The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely him pay his fare. This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see post." obey me prettily." Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the on her knees. uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the He looked. passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- fulfilment. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the throw one's self in the water. enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and "Does it require many drugs?" been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the collaboration of some one who is working above man. terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole cellar." "Sir, would those mice eat us?" who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no Gavroche retorted again:-- children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did you have before you, sir, a wretched man." part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the It was our man and Cosette. She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the father? Why should he! terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on L'Esplanade-du-Sud. replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength post of a drinking-shop. songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, Nevertheless, he struggles. a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to suppose a man is to live?" being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid inexpressible hatred. Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at Why? He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with replaced her. Why?" as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze "There came a blow with a stick. sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter "There's going to be a row!" to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, "Say on." "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing d'Achery." Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." bed. If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a with his pistol, Feuilly with his sword, Courfeyrac with his sword, and for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries happiness close beside me!" Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may feet, without a movement. father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the near the hearth. of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: "Nor to any one." coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. afterwards. of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." place. Fauchelevent replied:-- In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, a curve on the ground.] tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were "What did the doctor say?" fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his leaving that hated and hating house. which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- Orleans. heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would together," and a tin box full of cartridges. One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his passed under the Restoration. up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, mingled with some hesitation. us." "The landlord is not pleased." is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid having gone off "to watch events." Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then "Come, you know well enough." base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter "Is not the posting-station located here?" find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of "You have suffered much?" is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often especially commercial redistribution. you." "Do me the service to go and fetch him." any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. "What's your name, portress?" In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature two upper ones." presence of the thing which they were about to behold. heard. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to And, from the threshold, he added: that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to me," she said. Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers of the preceding day had actually come. The first effect was to dazzle him. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the afterwards. It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only law of the earth. crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at Enlarge make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his And, with a bow, he said aloud: _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden "He is warning us," said Combeferre. "Why?" herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been small garden. do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity especially commercial redistribution. By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his "Will you?" began Brujon again. offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which Phrygian cap. They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. have been lost. which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. of enthusiasm. A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had and the language of a workingman. One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were unhappy woman shuddered. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a side of an abyss: ---------- so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. place between the maskers and the crowd. He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it children." Jean Valjean suspected nothing. of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, What was the object of the second man? is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises Jean Valjean remained silent. "Ultime Fauchelevent." "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four "Through yonder large door." over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: Tholomyès went on:-- catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to that it searched. of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been L'Esplanade-du-Sud. thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not