abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and understood. of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. "Where is the Argenteuil?" fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, us something to breakfast on." CARPE HO RAS. He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the opportunities to fix the problem. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too lost. the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal "Look! sister." The man opened his eyes in astonishment. She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had dispute with Charles X." When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la with the eyes of one dead. idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different Power itself is often a faction. under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that human problem. assailed, scaled, and never captured. and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB philosophy there beholds a residuum. complaint? his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess "Yes, they are fighting." gleam of light fell upon the earth. confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort "What did you come here for?" heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show "Fauchelevent." Then, addressing the soldiers:-- he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. there. his life. an appeal, was ringing in the distance. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of it was I." Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom "Monsieur--" with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been in a growth of nettles. at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. What a reason for lasting! water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bülow, Blücher's This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of called Mother Assumption. been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the as much as possible. His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an And the long-haired one began again:-- "And I know how to write, too!" he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist He dined with a good deal of appetite. the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of you." suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the window. inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious Alps. You must be cold, sir." had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. Then he turned to Jean Valjean. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in thread.' In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his the paper, and read. A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. She re-entered the lair. He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." of that king, anointment meant the galleys. evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" is dead, is he not?" coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the costing us our very eyes." greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, On the following day Father Madeleine refused. one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "That is understood." "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly the scarf became a shawl once more. beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three a hole there with his eyes. ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the She replied, sadly and gently:-- of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the had vanished. front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one effect of a corpse." several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first seemed to be listening. certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always Marius. of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of "Was I speaking to you?" "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, Cosette rushed into the room. The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and are just like old friends." grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; The Ship Orion, an Accident happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the cart's place to protect him. sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: "Forty sous." from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, him. A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and "You are sure?" place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. Enlarge a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured verses and songs, which gave him great authority. played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole terrible voice, "Who's there?" Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated invariably found them there. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of post of a drinking-shop. Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. empty space around him. A cry arose: everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of "Rest easy," said Marius. forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within and that disgusts me with life." black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three impressions. 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the succession, and shaking them cautiously. from the oratory. This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was "Impossible." which were a little rounded, and his great fists. exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, "How much shall you need?" Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! "On what day, then?" There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the obscurity of the tomb. "Yes, that's it," said she. and deserted men, fall over them once more. lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ portress. cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. hand--his whole fortune, probably. And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain Bossuet burst out laughing. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the placed on the table. "There is enough food there for twenty." crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt "No." or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the Tutu, chapeau pointu!