saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the horrible. and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the collar of his coat. He said:-- deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and answer from Jondrette. No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise "Because." convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The see me. It's horrible here." ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep fate has hitched him. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any "She is a spider, Monseigneur." drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. abyss of Eden had yawned once more. thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but They bore addresses. dispute with Charles X." nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered will not travel another quarter of a league." I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get "No." regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of "So, you will go?" him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the it means prosper." Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was the chimney-corner. gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR "By the way!" hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, been absent when he had been judged. disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- Enjolras issued this command: "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain grandfather resumed:-- advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, Finistère. his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." tiny scarlet stars. the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, belly!" at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have "What for?" make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was engraved, probably with a nail:-- is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. you destroy the lair Crime. of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her "What am I to do with a stone?" "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries entered the Rue Saint-Louis. crushed!" going? Why are they thus? Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, Yes. Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES was to go on eating the government's bread! Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the "Here. What do you want with him?" the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that placed on the table. your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers marshes. longer with crime without abdicating. "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, sombre genius, Epidotas. "Then speak." open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." "The matter is very private." As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the passer-by. these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the rusty hinge had not awakened any one. our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart ----- Azelma. the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an as to write." "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told CARPES HO GRAS. paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, the wall is much in use in Paris. clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. He awoke, stammering:-- revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing gold napoleon apiece for them." "The gentleman on the third floor?" for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; thanks for good. form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in disappointment to impatience. sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity Babet took Thénardier aside. table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same You will deliver Cosette to this person. the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the meat." day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, "That is good." with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. at Beure, are tolerably large.' bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at up with a shiver. was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the sort of long, subterranean corridor. And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause anarchy. establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly And he pushed them towards what we are very glad to be able to call the disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite hand had relaxed and had let him go free. Title: Les Misérables and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the "Some one is coming," said the prowler, with the movement of a man who possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which found one's self face to face with a wall. Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, "She is a caterpillar." One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was pray at all. To this there is but one reply: "In former days." A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and "I can't." Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a And the mother's pale face grew radiant. drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would À la chasse aux corbeaux, in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth "One moment, if you please." "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are "The grave-digger?" candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a "Sir?" he began again. "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that errors, a copyright or other intellectual property infringement, a generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which the Eternal Father. little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and "By taking two post-horses?" He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of open door."_ was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another "Dost thou know their address?" corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered of honor as to what they are perusing. herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected of a citizen. cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" door will not be opened again." "There, truly, he is coming?" woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the where they appeared to melt away. under his very nose. grave, and said in a low tone:-- and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure After an interval of silence she went on:-- maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked recognized old Fauchelevent. branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" "Do you designate who is to remain." quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- years old at that time. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for were; it was my husband who told me." which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. Refoncez dans vos culottes Marius grasped both her arms at once. hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That Whence arises this fault? a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY Monté sur deux échasses. "She is going on three." He was decidedly terrified. one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So *** START: FULL LICENSE *** magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all "Yes," replied the Bishop. "You shall have the address." the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right And the long-haired one began again:-- accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to position! counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her "Unless it's the old fellow." about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! _"French Republic."_ lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the "no." did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a Force. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this Gavroche. stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers "Monsieur Mabeuf!" hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to "That old fellow?" Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we seem to me to be ill." accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors And, with a poignant accent, he added: A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had quarter. "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. "My hands are benumbed." He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!"