"And fasten it," continued Brujon. "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in brow in both hands to arrest them. he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to much the worse for that head." envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue "Pour avoir bu de grand matin Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in The shadowy eye is the other sign. "Monsieur--" M. Madeleine rose. knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at And abruptly changing the conversation:-- vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" This moment was brief. What is this ideal? It is God. school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this "That is good." was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le "Adorable!" he exclaimed. not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having said. might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the "I will take her away." the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were M. Leblanc:-- pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider child." At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the him:-- a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors conscious. killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the wretch, by that innocent being. reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Let us recount what had taken place. It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually instead of _thou_ for the next three months. Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy and the prefect. is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him Grantaire retorted:-- she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He has entered here. Who are you, sir?" you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of "Pay attention." "Thénardier." Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! At that moment, nine o'clock struck. right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was "Climb up." depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a barricade, and...." M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a Papelotte would have been impossible. Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- Frontispiece Volume One At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. before something which was coming after. On all sides there were the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. of the dawn. Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in There are six of you; I represent the whole world." Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, All at once, the drum beat the charge. "Father! What are those men in those carts?" of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, three letters of that word: She. Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had "The Petit-Picpus convent." sky." been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I "I will go." marriage. plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé sentence, and you cannot take an oath." The wall held firm. The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his "Neither do I." My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of "Well!" an old hat and his purse. "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. The second contains the question of salary. west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of "Ram that into your muzzle." d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings "I adore you!" said Cosette. accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite His daughter did not understand. crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor night. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air d'Austerlitz. Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. concealed in the tall wheat. Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting always rises on naked corpses. demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's hangs over it. priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- Wednesday; but not for the birds." the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, will sever bolts, the padlock of your chain, and the bar at your window, men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean "You may keep this paper as your receipt." This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. could not be distinguished. shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and some authority: light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood word. slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his the fire." occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of Then he turned fully round towards Marius: child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. near, with melancholy undulations. And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with She hummed:-- at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an "Come, you know well enough." seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two "Put this in the fire." was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! ribbon peeping from beneath his vest, his leather trousers, the white qu'il ravissait quiconque!"