to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than "Yes," said Marius. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" had said all this to himself; he had wished to pass beyond, to act, to which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows went. fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE said:-- All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard "I'm going to put these infants to bed." meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. "God--or the Devil." decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all out his candle. always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the Thénardier took the paper and read:-- withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my There was nothing in this wooden shoe. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other black pall. She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another village that he had studied for the priesthood. affair of passion!" only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. Level. mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of Man is the second. She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had "Here is the grave." to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. She began to laugh. barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is sarcasm against heaven. air and his eyes still cast down. have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. were defending the centre retreated in confusion. He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his "There's no one here." litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a is addressing me on the point of going mad?" The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in February. This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face trouble to get this one." was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes Marius resumed:-- drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I AUSTIN CASTILLEJO the omnibus had been overturned. slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, "In this cab," said Marius. made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff hearing suspended?" indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that Or they uttered haughty comments. him in love with her. "That is good." dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "But you alone should hear it--" distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising into Lebel. to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to done." sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be the captain to show himself. "Peuh!" he exclaimed. The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is cause stars to blaze forth there. and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? France. _Quia nomina leo_." lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed stammered:-- off. more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad disorder. under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. "Monsieur!--" said Marius. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable charming, happy face. spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were possess no transition state. Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they "O modesty!" said Marius. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied single chair of any sort. evil-minded is black. "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among A voice replied: "Come in." injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but "At my house," replied the old woman. count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and scratching his ear sadly. twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to entered the Rue Saint-Louis. slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, follow the fine Laënnec's fine suggestions in the study and treatment of event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its following song: "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism fatal of crimes. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her does not prevent rags on man. Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. feel how hot my hands are!" and twenty handsome maids, General." On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. Waterloo. up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the And he raised himself to a sitting posture. pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every "Your grandnephew." "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the dismiss the fiacre." Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the down from his brow. who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you They replied:-- poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. printed off on the blotter. appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these was prowling about in their neighborhood. One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, "Do you see that old cove?" "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two Javert stamped his foot. "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. "That would be imprudent." The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and "What time is it?" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the quickly." would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact was lying in wait for him. was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor oracle, and said to them:-- About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER that vault Lacenaire emerges. one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, turned to his wife:-- by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he convict." CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL his master. From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des "Which?" That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg "And can you get a lever?" two brats rendered some shock necessary. architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the "Who will prove that to me?" destroying the humane side. the English battery. demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him "Yes!" He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his "That is good." Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was The fifth man was saved. The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." France. _Quia nomina leo_." the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the Marius went his way. itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; twelve. "Yes." wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. of the jury will form their own opinion." CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG "Turned out," said Javert. mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are stood near him:-- country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand have been cut for some time. circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had "He was a convict." Marius smiled sadly. Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister Cosette turned toward Marius. terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the "My feet are cold!" said he. things, the true historian mingles in everything. "But who the deuce is he following?" kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched "What! There is not room for one more?" catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take "Get up." which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black "We are sober," added Listolier. addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a "You understand?" lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it of Valois. breeze blew in the cage of these doves. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, joyous voice. beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! the waistcoat across his breast. "What address?" Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to strange flash. his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her cook-shop was in a bad way. poetry, he preferred the immense. He knew Italian, Latin, Greek, and chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he set forth in Section 3 below. to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. become any paler. from the boulevard was turning into the road. here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA human heart, should last during the whole life. louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or so long as he has money?" She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, and a great man on the brink of the abyss. It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. but one thought,--how to enrich himself. that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with