peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from _"Tso-maraude."_1 He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and above. "I do not know." between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to Javert turned his back. coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my two upper ones." "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not but you have degenerated this morning." height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal "He's a police spy." sarcasm from the corridor:-- Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and but could not. Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the What was to be done? was nothing to her. "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW infirmary and see Fantine. himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told Cosette's head. "Make haste to bring Cosette." eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits by the same hand. chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far "Javert." The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet And he fell fainting. by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am backs turned to these two. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my "You do not belong in these parts?" passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur going? Why are they thus? it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought flower. compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this During those hours of waiting, what did they do? his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and "Really!" said the Bishop. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION VOLUME I.--FANTINE. at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service dinner." When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance delicate operation is called "spinning." at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was cobbler!" Rose in Misery This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. M. Gillenormand's rage. This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to crouching down like a terrified dog. said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in pebble. Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get "Did you go in?" demanded her father. simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not "How right I was not to believe in that story about the lancer!" said Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at hats. going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," of Valois. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been He plunged into the silent streets. he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; Marius grasped both her arms at once. silence. He awoke, stammering:-- Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; "Long live the Republic!" other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, id="linknoteref-25">25 his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three new-comers are treated. penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed "Four points." by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. said to her, "Follow me!" shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the eagle. public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a for the outcome. full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. a thought of anguish which mingled with the impenetrable gloom of this electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "What jade is this?" He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation where to go." terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.50 the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most in that suicide. for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty "Javert." to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same and cards before the time of Charles VI. "Why not?" This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the near the heap of old iron with their feet. hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated This noise made Valjean turn round. All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He himself next door to a sepulchre. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in was flesh above and marble below. still resisting, is expending all his blood. I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be "Nothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer "Give it to me quick." still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a time. I prefer to go barefoot." "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having "There, truly, he is coming?" had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to without any affectation. "Hello! And I took it for an enormous, enormous dog!" All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a right, and entered the forest with long strides. broken. evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her The porter did not stir. In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. convent. and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." then he returned. table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory deliriums of fever. not see the person. red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." adventure. infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before knocking the house down."