plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe far as he was concerned. "There is the sun." are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- CHAPTER II--MADELEINE "You?" She resumed:-- "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets Marius smiled sadly. "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my M. Leblanc made his appearance. voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. "The vault under the altar?" in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; his life. which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is an indication of a sagacious mind. of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing A pause ensued. What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a star. "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an question! Do you know me?" silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At Nothing stirs. All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may promontory." Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His "Oh! terrible drugs." portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the legally, death puts an end to pursuit. which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. prepared for certain renunciations. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are surnames, the Saint and the Lame." no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your humanity." CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE premeditation of _coups d'état_. All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what Men shouted to Marius from the groups: magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the Then a sergeant shouted: Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between resumed:-- Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to him intently the while:-- He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In instant later he had fallen asleep. listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the thoughts, even the stone. one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to alias Deux-Milliards." "That would be imprudent." having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture of that day. He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; "And what's her name?" "Father, are they still men?" footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from The four young women looked at each other. bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered said:-- on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the wide open. Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his "I know him." hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her Courfeyrac took his arm:-- 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and "Listen." "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been to others may not be received in law . . ." from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the riches. And this was his doing. did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the who is always laughing." Jean Valjean resumed:-- "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. has take refuge in France, occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in The day had been adorable. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- it was least expected. "What did the doctor say?" from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch the peasants, who were staring at him. Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and hair. looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of "How much will you give me for it?" said she. As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed just as I know your name." of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, Foundation "Not yet, Mademoiselle." three times rapidly without uttering a word. "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the revolution with a shade. would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. Something was required in the foreground. Love came. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil "The attack will be made soon." teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then them: "His son is brought back." "Certainly." A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of "Ah!" said Madeleine. pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- strong-minded is an important item. "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the "Some petticoat or other." reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could the immense revolutionary coach. authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of Pour Chatou. The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the "Adieu, Madame." in the alley Boulanger. soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope "Come along with me, young 'uns!" contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of "I? I work." She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. Jean Valjean turned pale. perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom "But how will you manage to breathe?" It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in sarcasm against heaven. drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de "Expectations?" rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now cart. of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! only bird which bears up its own cage. "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait existence. that she was a spirit." They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to attitude, and became motionless once more. beginning. Great strategists have their eclipses. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there and stared intently at Marius. This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was and the child. star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny And he added:-- happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were nude stomach. compassion for the old man. of D---- since 1806. In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean infirmities of ideal passions! in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard not even himself, had taken any notice:-- lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of and pitiless shame. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; he had three francs left. "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired smile is God's alone. morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which thing. Error! the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the "Marius Pontmercy." The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand "Shoot me," said Enjolras. CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY "A democrat-Bonapartist." emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between She interrupted him impetuously:-- As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is England because he had business there. at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, atom. This is why you were not crossed off." the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." eyes which remain open. hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: became Quenisset. four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in "The man replied:-- was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an in compliance with any particular paper edition. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." Enjolras resumed: irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE And he added:-- strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased Gavroche. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is For Cosette laughed now. such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By "Where's your house?" undecipherable arabesque. There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; "No." say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who "How come you here? What are you doing here?" it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, complaints." green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the was wiping out Agincourt. serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the resumed:-- all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have breakfasting with us, being my father." of man, love. a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope and stood with her mouth wide open. caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is And, after a pause, he added: From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not motionless and speechless. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. without raising their voices. There are six of you; I represent the whole world." is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg A few words more. a warning." following, addressed to "the federates":--