is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). He made a sign of the head in the negative. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a and very obedient servant, "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, talent of a juggler. does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I Bahorel replied:-- anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE The poor child passively held her peace. served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How not be overheard." he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was stood near him:-- and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in public letter-writer. daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, And he burst out laughing. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not he. Marius resumed:-- Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, add:-- blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no sphinx. "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" which still remained standing. "Are you sure of it?" transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think "The attack will be made soon." re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment The child's voice responded:-- Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, from the furrow, and disease from the stream. voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. LETTER TO M. DAELLI "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery reason for desiring that you should know who I am." "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He She interrupted him impetuously:-- "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be did you bring so many; they were not needed." one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine conversation:-- For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the skull-cap." later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life the old man approached him again and said:-- "All ready to go out." will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" beneath brushwood. Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was effort in speaking in this manner: Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to often." seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." The doctor felt of his pulse. As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! of the lower classes. woman. On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to This was the idea:-- of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which Cosette herself. Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue "Go take your seat," said the President. me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he the mendicant on the highway:-- And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then old-clothes broker at the Temple. They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, on the nail!" black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé thee!" At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in "That will be enough." venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the grand-uncle. Esquimaux tent. his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the with himself. Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of is soaked. having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they song then so popular:-- the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he "My name is Eight-Pounder." happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink every comer.] It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything obtaining an inkling of the case. the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins Président only admits public functionaries to them." could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and something in the nature of enormous waves. "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers on these wounds. He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' the houses. female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets many guns are there?" political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with And the whole barricade clapped their hands. a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the "Do you know German?" memoirs. police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she and I confine myself to that." lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered "There came a blow with a stick. against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome "Put something in it." into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was thou wilt smile." humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That important things. They had told each other everything except everything. Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR shriek:-- "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such lampblack. This gave him a different nose. not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of on high like the voice of the thunder. adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and condemned to death. blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. frightful hands!" in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even She read:-- orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. one would have said that he saw some one. of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the his savage head. the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is "The charter metamorphosed into flame." the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused The dandy fled. make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor "What is it?" "What, Father Fauvent?" that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, "That is well." rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was pillars of the market. On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, read. militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were feet among the warm ashes. there are no fortunate. It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. There came two taps at the door. beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, hand. emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would that it must be concealed. without pausing for breath:-- former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it conversation:-- Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the She loved Tholomyès. easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was Loire. It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to age," said he. Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- in a loud voice:-- To whom? illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. of thirst, but the eye is gratified. She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared "Why?" neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he lugubrious stretches. to her. trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded "Here it is," said the soldier. invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. Marius breathed freely once more. The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed fold it." A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." "What time is it?" two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That resembled night. tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, that isolated quarter. fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. laughing:-- that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." I could dance if any one wished it." resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the Here is the note:-- disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot begins to behold the stars of the tomb? 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate Mont-Saint-Jean. "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the "You know that a mother died this morning?" form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a one." order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it foreseeing that he should not dine. the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at "The father turkey-cocks so grave austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE than that of handing in his resignation. might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a He hastened in that direction. have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The very low voice:-- herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was an expression of thanks. "What are you going to do?" Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white No one stirred. So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained Marius found himself alone. announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back