perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO its light; against immensity, a needle. It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one times, by the deep breaths of eternity. overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. resuscitate it? gamin. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire should be governed only by science." Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the youth! kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He Javert replied:-- grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel Holofernes." One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility Then he asked himself-- So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their the skirt of his coat. me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He Men shouted to Marius from the groups: of her husband, turned to say:-- It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." proposed to fleece royally the following morning. was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a longer moved. calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along neck as an infinitely delicate thing." three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." 'blaze the crib.'" attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. "You will carry her out?" carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail It was no longer snowing; the moon disengaged itself more and more uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts address, indeed!" she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of search of. moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all The murmurs redoubled. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my "Well, in two hours, then." "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had "With what?" "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about course of my life." serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances Did she mean to go out? No. discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. Prêcheurs. accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer He strode off in the direction of the markets. Norman legends call the Alleurs. round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the with himself. she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. children. What love commences can be finished by God alone. He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the "Yes." Marius sprang to his feet. already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he farce." been there a moment before. He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with and it is too much to have even called attention to it. itself on its guard. BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same children." as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the bed. There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying emit a ray of light. physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when green swan-hutch. windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, auroral light in the form of a woman. truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors further advanced than before. "That is true." Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. She did not open her eyes. bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! boulevard. Marius stammered: so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most and who say: "No one shall have him!" "Give it to me quick." the trees, were resplendent. life of this poor old man?" incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. Pikes. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. ink and presented it to him. time to kiss you." "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His Javert replied: at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the And who, with gentle hands, do clear "Cosette!" absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his him.23 to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, "Why, what's the matter with her?" This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, on. devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the poultry.] merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian Enlarge intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize A year passed; then another. laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words society. the halt. Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to "Wife!" he cried. learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just characters, with a pencil:-- M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little "Enter, sir." received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an all that horror. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had three letters of that word: She. The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, this time all had come. with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, front of him. piece of ordnance. Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these once more. heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a impelled to accost that child. almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Fantine. "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first The Black Hunt on his boots. "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of facilitate this tale. _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been ----- He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of The man approached and gazed down upon her. made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. Miralabi suslababo humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras "How agreed?" He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and thither. and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. his feelings towards his father were gloomy. troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.