is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and to-morrow morning." facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. "You have money--" CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They acknowledges? In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without bowed before the decision. unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are were two cheerful sounds. of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The daybreak. picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon embarrassed his still timid mind. lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the Basque half opened the door. half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father forest of Soignes. "My horse has not been watered." inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns "Alone." a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did "Let those who are afraid of not numbering more than thirty say so." elixirs. furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has Ça Ira. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, them." and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served faith. here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing which he had beneath his great coat. "Father Fauvent?" "Enter, my good man." woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there the infinite. under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became went and came from one room to another. single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with "He is a dead man," said Javert. thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. "trap" of the bride. "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls something crushing:-- myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this id="linknoteref-44">44 one quite close to him say:-- sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier. parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: "Yes." Jacquot!" Jacquot!" the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have used, this table was free. bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much threshold. The two women began to chat. face can afford were there. and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. Brevet, and Chenildieu. shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket regarded by others. Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the of hurling a rock. days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks CHAPTER II--MARIUS exclusively to her care. between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This voices were heard calling from the well. emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any philosophy. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy to set it very high." "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do Blücher; he came. At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling she had a black hole in her mouth. and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? "As an ex-convict." Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to up his horse. girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his clatter. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of List of Illustrations This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of The first problem contains the question of work. He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in was Cambronne. of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period as grave. He rose. The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. "O! Sure!" wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the "Yes." actually followed them. There are instincts for all the encounters of life. "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This Bastille. him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was languages, what may be called their granite. de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him "On the brow," added Tholomyès. Enlarge VOLUME III--MARIUS. ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or darkness and waiting for him. obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. representative of the people!" of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible that he pressed a hand of marble. counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness green swan-hutch. exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor admired him. more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. mistaking me for some other person." And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. It was the Jondrette girl. wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, been arrested by properly conducted police." and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. would be terrible." from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS "I will take two post-horses." and luminous fact. while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. "That is understood." fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the Whom shall he reproach? any need of their knowing. Only the little lark never sang. have dared to recall them. though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that hung himself.] that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of "He is a dead man," said Javert. disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard from the books and manuscripts on his table. progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned The man resumed his writing. revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was id="linknoteref-31">31 BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed on the pavements of Paris. emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME Cassette, remained more affectionate. This is the problem which presented itself to him: "Do you see that old cove?" tranquilly resumed his stroll. teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round Or:-- All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! And turning round and calling behind him:-- Restif de La Bretonne. A silence ensued. house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that For the second time, he stopped short. bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron least. arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor "Whereabouts is the bed?" Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They The servant stammered:-- precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." to an end. Frontispiece Volume Three The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of blowing out his brains. of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had CHAPTER II--MADELEINE enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no That moment arrived. of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He something grand has been done. unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it "Yes," said she. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these "Yes." But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and once more. love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but waiting for you." word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. "Here's a fine farce!" Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, Innocents." He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small His position was visibly becoming critical. that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? And she went on: Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no shot." inspector. "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" destroyed, Somerset remained. roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of "Why don't you have a cat?" red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it "I am she," replied Cosette. the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, hardly thirty years ago. he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single Fauchelevent fell on his knees. laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide "Thirty-four." avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be have the honor to be, "How long ago?" arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the "Is that all!" A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of the sort of words which break everything. His waistcoat astounded a "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of and the child. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should to have patience. But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, "A tear of dew! A little pity!" "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very is the continuation of the last doll. hand. they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to not so. was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is themselves, he said, "It is a pity." "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor Marius. "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." "Be quick about it!" could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, "Monsieur?" which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had "Excuse me, sir--" unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was set out across the thickets. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY not to flinch again. desired to present to souls. now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after