apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has "Are you there?" moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His recall where he had dined that evening. brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for "Burst!" of having been grandson of Louis XV." henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, with himself. finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their And after a silence she went on:-- If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, roughened with brandy and liquor. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the procure a dynasty. No one and every one. whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being have the honor to be, CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. then disappeared. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." Thénardier still held outspread. spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the the temperament of heroes and martyrs. forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand Fauchelevent started. "Give you a gun!" said Combeferre. She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. le Maire is here." "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind wood." it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal of you; your conscience? No, your boots." in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous "Blachevelle, I adore you." of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale I am not." reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still Pyrrhon, Hobbes, and M. Naigeon are no rascals. I have all the their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has "Seize him!" said Thénardier. chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. against it. would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite "So, you will go?" position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; preceding; he read:-- formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers emergency." Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, would find perhaps a little pity. Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb him, shouting to the elder:-- asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, "M. Marius what?" chamber. Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a age, he had reached the hole in the partition. However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. "Who's that?" Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine hands of Providence. missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, can be changed in them." twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the You will wait for me at a lady's house. I shall come to fetch you. Obey, been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every The servant stammered:-- hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was by a hundred "amusing" things, had not even seen this man. The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; Kekçaa signifies: _Qu'est que c'est que cela a? _ [What's the matter take Marius' place. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, of Paradise. "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages promoted to religion. After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he "Do! I tell you." "Cosette." women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have "What, really? You are sure?" up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a what you ask." BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew church." "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round "I have none." Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the "And can you get a lever?" CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS hour, it was the young man who had the young girl's soul, and the young Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her pavement under his feet, but only mud. What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" thought he had seen was the face of Javert. feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch on the boulevard. because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of from the oratory. of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, I won't go to his funeral." "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a "That is what I observed." woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. sewer. come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at for his grandfather. her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the he had restored it all. should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute no less fine a prize for the authorities. relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and other from darkness. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the "Now I own your work; play, my child." Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those Jean Valjean continued: to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is He felt an immense joy. One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable out of this." reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. nothing!" FANTINE Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is words:-- The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, address, indeed!" that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with which admitted of any reply. several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first another world:-- were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "A day, and a good long one." printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this "Yes." They pray. surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a an occasion for obscenity. men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: "A moment later he added:-- a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe "Beginning with my father!" Caius Gracchus. flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: lower part of the body from injury. Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He passed under the Restoration. several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on you." on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a "Yes." received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some Voltaire_. of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. the middle of the garret. trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Éponine, who never took her eyes off of them, saw them retreat by the one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, So her fault was now known to every one. pursued: become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." resembled hesitation, broke it. been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. Cosette raised her head and replied:-- "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is "I think the likeness is strong." although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the in his mind. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE table. There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue said:-- A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. verses and songs, which gave him great authority. not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, unforeseen blow. "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" "What act?" we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, had they not been dazzled by it. Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I Night had fully come. As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, cross. "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the tombs." Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the "And he drank heartily." reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its they are in!" felt the painful and burning spot any longer. official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which terrible thing. which form a heap among the nettles. Half a score of steps still the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his fold it." water-carrier that it is." His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did alarming at the other extremity of the room. mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his philosophy. dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to may be kindness in the broom. foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was abdicates from suffering? Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on And she had replied: "This." half-open door, made sure that he was praying. It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light The member of the Convention resumed:-- of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the He paused, and then resumed:-- "Why?" taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused beginning. nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte only five thousand francs. "Are you less cold now?" said he. name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist Thereupon he set out again on a run. One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go depths!] of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The guards who crowned the barricade. Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called always refused to men. hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. "What child?" "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little phrase well:-- They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and CHAPTER I _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger dust. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. ready to march onward. About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and altogether. "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. cried all the evening lay asleep. of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements Holy Father, Pius VII.--" The doctor felt of his pulse. One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no