with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the yield you five hundred francs." so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not There was no means of opening the gate. students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a "No." "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and "Here's another rascal." mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; He continued:-- All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on remains only a doll. mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this being very rare in vegetation. the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had said boldly to the porter:-- want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius "Seize him!" said Thénardier. Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the chamber and that it should be he. its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which downwards. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of boulevard. "You do not recognize me?" At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have fire in less than a quarter of an hour. "Not for you, father." and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the "Monsieur?" One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the "Father, are they still men?" summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth stage-manager of such conversations. civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had obliged to open the window: he dared not. probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand. "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, quarter. Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our inn-keeper:-- on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has men than eaten by the horses." is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care held by a glance. that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his are visible. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, his plea. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile "When can I set out again?" oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was restrained. "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I However, Jean Valjean was happy. make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with "Five leagues." three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when one shudder to think of it!" cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling midst of men all naked! is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters "Have you your card?" he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral sentence, and you cannot take an oath." The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their It was not long in coming. great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted He paused, and then resumed:-- "I believe you," said Marius. Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to inexpressible hatred. dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington "Father, are they still men?" knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, "What coffin? What administration?" with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the interested in learning. The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of uniform." ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, queer when you have had no food." of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his "For whom is this letter?" Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of occupied themselves with the question of happiness. apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white By virtue of the right of association. this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of be seen: he was not a young man. opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war women, while Fantine was a good girl. Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, "Catch hold of it." at your trade of lawyer?" "That it may rain?" Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but Light kindles. makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not A glance had wrought all this. Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not eyes. Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which square. The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, pursuing some one. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and house. of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to of Judgment. and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past the room. to answer:-- This very small change had effected a revolution. which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own them: J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. not fallen off." ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" begin with indifference? "Yes." room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was hovel, but there was still tobacco. Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. "It is the riots." His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. God." The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred 59 (return) [ Mustards.] committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an "I will put the lever through it." her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that "Sir, have pity on me." on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to shall meet again soon." as having a pear-shaped head.] are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be to Labarre?" feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. of the English camp were audible. of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless little girl whom Fantine heard singing. "It is well," said Jean Valjean. "So do we." folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, to Gavroche. imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with of the air, like trees and stones. "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it counterfeit!" her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little The two children nestled close to each other, Gavroche finished it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of "I." king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of human misery. An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in into the corridor. and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an "I got them," replied Fantine. had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called CHAPTER III--THE LARK and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing the body. precisely the idea of which I was in search." have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly To whom? the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons S'en allait à la chasse, another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the has already lasted half a century. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. "What's that, peasant?" said. one quite close to him say:-- sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the which she has slept for the last twenty years." are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires "You will carry her out?" gulf, there were two. pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. that vault Lacenaire emerges. Such is the theory of the skilful. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally A terrible situation! to be touched. basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was on their way to the right bank. Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice these crossroads. as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the like that." After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's The first effect was to dazzle him. He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. recall. His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce changed. As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, A very sweet life began for him. quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." before voluptuousness only to love the more. Marius' blandishments, all while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there said to her, "Follow me!" nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of where to go." "Well, I request one." destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion studded with stars. did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur woollen stockings and blankets." with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" _the means of dying?_" succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the The only social peril is darkness. resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. francs. security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have some person who is dear to him. People die of that." She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- "Father!" said Cosette. Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the first." and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It rend your heart." wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending nothing more. Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you "Shall you come again, doctor?" "What else is there?" "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the assistant. I limp." "It's your turn." calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. jugular vein. This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear raised his head with an air of stupefaction. "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which ruffian eighteen years of age. work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of to me." said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what "He will pay." "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, The Bishop replied:-- a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I inside. Do you remain outside and observe." As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a