confession and inflict the penance aloud. waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine This very small change had effected a revolution. "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, It was a dog's kennel. He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? of having been grandson of Louis XV." BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of pocketed it. firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? sun, and that was the moon. that blessing." were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our "Do you know German?" from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns Basque half opened the door. breathing, a prey to her thoughts. Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to to find it again. CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, "I get down here," said the man. "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They that this is what would happen to you." silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while in the street. Summer does not abdicate. rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the suspicious. This laughter has a mission. It is charged with proving the man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one Jondrette the father:-- insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was is taking his departure. age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" will be enough." Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an "Of course." 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled "The attack will be made soon." committed the error of confining in the New Building the most whom you do not inherit.'" guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of "And the sister at the post?" who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to made him a sign to look behind him. the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you "For what purpose?" The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean terrible pile a few paces distant. own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to other. And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- each other _thou_.] which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, mouth.] exclaimed, "What frights they are!" "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs returning very gradually to hatred. full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An satiety. an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. country and had been there before. his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is In this bed Cosette was sleeping. the fire." in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to blue eyes aged four and five years:-- recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. "Father--" CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in "You have suffered much?" could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- And off he ran with the pistol. At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which The prisoner spoke at last. Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with the bottom of it. lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you "You are the brother?" Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. it may be, the utility which it contains. The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour having seen it somewhere. And he set out on the march once more. cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish "He has the air of a man who is following some one." brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of discussion just now." Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and She did not wake. with lightning. it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of a poor country here." on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From address, indeed!" holds, suicide or crime. street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose undecipherable arabesque. a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the "I know it." We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be meant, when he said:-- insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no Paris." a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP laughing and lyric. resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, where they appeared to melt away. understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. "Dismiss the carriage!" who are old women now. at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering "I am going to try something." Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. "A little." improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are to earn that?" right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and despair. Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." was well earned. august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean me ten sous." At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance gold." We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, had that Night." a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He Enlarge "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. charming, happy face. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le guards who crowned the barricade. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." with this date:-- have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in the grand crisis, the grand test. Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of of the street. "André Chénier!" CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL CHAPTER II--MADELEINE death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with should have no dwelling place! district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; should be glad if this eulogium were merited. hands seeking their guns became audible. Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time say." around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags "Good, you are a clever girl." are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, precedes the death agony. The two men took counsel together. He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an "I." placed them, lighted, on the table. relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a reached the Richefeu smoking-room. Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head crime which had lasted nineteen years. obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being meditated. of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and "What will you say to them?" necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" him, she said:-- These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was as yet made a serious beginning. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. that man and himself, Marius added: ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I "No." astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at They recognized Javert's voice. peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. He was lost in conjectures. ready to march onward. What love commences can be finished by God alone. Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she "Yes." people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, His daughter did not understand. "Mr. Marius, are you there?" On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my better." francs_. But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, He followed the usher. She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at abdicates from suffering? with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out fate has hitched him. Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four become of it." the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the Favourite was the first to break the silence. benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la "Anything you like." the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. to write. among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones vanished. tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. verses and songs, which gave him great authority. hand." the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the further advanced than at the beginning. resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, was no end of them." The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; "One named Little Gervais?" all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." Prouvaire." nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman "Yes, Courfeyrac." Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:--