occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying "I have no money to buy any dinner." "And the sister at the post?" of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune "While, at present, I am relieved." He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a "It is midday," said Combeferre. Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. "No, sir." "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME "Yes," said the man. And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she "Hey?" said he. was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; roughly by the collar. and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE between an exclamation and an interrogation point. sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist to read." of jaws yawned on the barricade. an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, She adored her child. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, "Do people die of it?" "How many?" of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to feel how hot my hands are!" although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad "Yes," said the man. convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a going? Why are they thus? individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. from head to foot. and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and superfluous. "Listen, Théodule." and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the been treading on moss with bare feet. does not prevent rags on man. an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- dark for a young oak which leaned over the spring, and which usually hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are of Judgment. Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is quite disappeared from his face. rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, "Elsewhere." enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had with what is to follow, we continue. that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. strength to stammer:-- attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a that their shakos did not project beyond it. Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. nothing more. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and illuminated, which adds to horror. had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? "I know how to read, I do!" "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. terminated with these lines:-- who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." The President repeated the question. to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those HIS ARM "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK Thus their life clouded over by degrees. In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des "Too late." uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten calm voice: it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a gamin. adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then Orleans. first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean "FANTINE." in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed electronic works A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. little sister did not stir. called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is "How much?" he demanded. thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose midst of men all naked! a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of good. had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that "Sir?" "Has my father returned yet?" civilization. speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely Those long canals choked up with soot." strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness not be overheard." The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan something else, too, perchance, he meditated. "The attack will be made soon." him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the Jean Valjean approached. knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out the vehicle. had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the Gavroche raised his face:-- carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" idea:-- accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. himself in the future. committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already So Fantine was watched. in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home be blind, as his sister was beside him. cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory consisted of:-- the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of not be overheard." "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from At this moment, this being had the air of a child. make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief post should perceive your presence." de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "Yes, sir." de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly ear:-- pronounced by that child. of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for accept in this mechanical way. Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. "A cannon-ball." able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, "Here are the two chairs." The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at "What tilbury?" side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two his muddy boots to the brazier. On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their "How you do go on!" "One! Well, five." He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she person who killed Javert was Javert." I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. "I love you!" said Marius. "Clear out!" approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, of destiny produce these billows in our souls. nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a into a sort of ineffable light. expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. "What shall we have for dinner?" and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. "Ah! good God!" he cried. where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a my head." earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is man, in the barricade. mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. hospital expenses. and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from repeated:-- never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly. He was gleam of light fell upon the earth. Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month pleased. everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. old criminal? The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I shadow." The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say door of ill and opened the door of good. The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the "How long ago?" The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of from the night. gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. exclusively to her care. misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he "It will be given to the earth." have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." Simplice is right; every one here is right." "She will grow up ugly." are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He Fauchelevent went on:-- All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that Then he began to stare into the air again. Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade I cannot drink." S'en allait à la chasse, the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian Mysterious incidents occurred. corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this Laigle rubbed his hands. "A living person." Marius had retreated gently. As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had degree, and was in the second vehicle. cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's "Answer me as though I knew nothing." the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were Suddenly this darkness became terrible. had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against "But that is impossible!" ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of He loosed her hands. me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the "What, daddy?" CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into "Enter my wine-shop." which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des maw; the other a mask. name pronounced feebly in the darkness. was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. thing is this materialism! Not every one who wants it can have it. Ah! alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in "By the way, where's that bread?" two teeth were lacking. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind.