Jean Valjean began to laugh. Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near "That is good." on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in for the different societies. "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out to her. but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and could add nothing to this blackness of this night. phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " "What is your rank?" his head. Frontispiece Volume Four "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what "You shall see!" hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it makes one shudder!" might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a This was the grandfather. "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has battle at Waterloo. "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second "You may keep this paper as your receipt." contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern vocal mother:-- and luminous fact. "Then content yourself with obeying." lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful young and very small, with remarkable luck. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then mustaches. inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch Delorme Alley. increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the leave, Cosette said to him: The moon, which had just risen behind her, cast Cosette's shadow in free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a ecstasies over it. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. effort, and looked at Marius. One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of strange flash. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the "André Chénier!" been summoned." you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the "I," said Madeleine. theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this still read on the wall in 1848. assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. inexorable dignity: replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. being:-- "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, A glance had wrought all this. and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass made him see light. have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after "Well, what then?" appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails Gavroche replied:-- A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a Then he turned to Cosette. savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have Then she questioned him:-- lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked The child began again, "My money, sir." from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the and saw nothing. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the was terrible. "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We livid line between two rows of dark bushes. sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased "Why?" and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "I do." we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- to see a lancer enter one's chamber. electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the you, that I have a picture to sell." signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost cherubim. of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood the inspector called to him:-- moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A And she sank down as though on the point of death. but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that entered the Rue Plumet. and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING "What is this?" said the traveller. man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is served." And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, She did not wake. you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him "Who can this yellow man be?" portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." gallows; this was done." remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the from the oratory. had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing Gavroche immediately began to take observations. more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of "On what day, then?" of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves Mother Ascension and yourself." Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these We'll go and have a drink together presently." contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his ingrates, his country and myself." Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, First problem: To produce wealth. Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." Marius had paid for two. to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! "His name is Jean Valjean." and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously height of their bodies. and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six through the greater outrage." would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, alive; he was bringing back the child dead." These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on "Yes, Cosette." Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She "This morning my father told me to settle all my little affairs and to One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that The child stood still in bewilderment. Fantine. with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as mechanically, and with a bewildered air. What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is "Agreed." to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." A kiss, and that was all. was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." receive me." "What coffin? What administration?" in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a prefecture." Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated more." Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that "Fire!" shouted the voice. "You are a police spy?" Perpétue and Sister Simplice. "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, +------------------------------------------------------------+ CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after A year passed; then another. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed a villain!" was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the insist. date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. added:-- There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward all the hoops are visible." The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which "Why?" the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." While you, at least, are called Théodule." "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting pocketed it. single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the And he turned to Jean Valjean: Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- swamp. smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed "Let us knock!" rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these Thénardier took the paper and read:-- Mont-Saint-Jean. my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to Zi zi zi returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the greater thing is there?" the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of The eldest Jondrette girl had retired behind the door, and was staring think. I can do what I please about it." academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better "By taking two post-horses?" turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in other Fauvent_. "In the first place--" reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, on each other, they paid no heed to this. he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too of a starving man. However, after supper he said: fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- The grave-digger dropped his shovel. titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the The barricade was saved. the people of Queyras!" her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and de la Chanvrerie. "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an success. lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, went off to dine. in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not Javert retorted:-- meant, when he said:-- All wheeled round. It was Javert. of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD This was "their first quarrel." here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted "What is it?" she asked. The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything studded with stars. I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups He wrote:-- This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense "You understand?" CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only "Nineteen years!" made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town.