a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to Enlarge thus gained, in fact. "Will you?" began Brujon again. Don don don charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. mustaches. when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a Mon Dieu! a man is not a monster because he was at Waterloo; a father clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable who guard it._ worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity "Yes, Madame, I am going." contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." even when stained with blood. Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that "Come, now, what do you want of me?" intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." vocal mother:-- was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence Cosette turned toward Marius. exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is Then it was terrible. square hole like the hatchway of a ship. The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: reached the Richefeu smoking-room. he cried: one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing Enlarge Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, classes." wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be "Everything is as usual." to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to him out. traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" the stars. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; The officer went on:-- CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY 59 (return) [ Mustards.] At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] absence. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. "Six o'clock," answered Marius. "Well?" cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of He paused; then began again:-- "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the "What?" improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to Orleans. said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second it. which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it "You knocked him over cheap," said he. Valjean resumed: coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still serene. phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a That done, Thénardier resumed:-- as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom pettifogging, I beg of you." crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the began to tug at her skirt. athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him "Grub away." is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the "The deuce!" on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." M. Madeleine shuddered. their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- himself to it," etc., etc. There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and 1830." rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of from the foils. It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the The shadowy eye is the other sign. "So you have no mother." where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own itself was protected by a metal case. was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same "Yes." _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its with himself. gay; one is tender:-- heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. now it reappeared. That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! Then a formidable spectacle was seen. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which the pediment like a fractured leg. I know all about it." twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. Because Dom Mabillon gives four hundred and seventeen epistles of Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA He took her hand. His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A brave men. there. Marius was not there. glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! name." door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. She was shivering. "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. they are." fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I "Me! me! me!" afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; den. paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then heard in all quarters of the town:-- confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming She turned her head and rose to her feet. of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here He paused. dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the "Let us knock!" ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through "How much is it?" "Nineteen years." in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." interpolating this word.] absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons He redoubled his pace. They were bottles of aquafortis. it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render cause stars to blaze forth there. flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, The senator resumed:-- candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little Basque announced: M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, To what purpose?" two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above "That is good." dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" tortuous, colossal citadel. success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain with a pike. am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. rehabilitation of Napoleon. "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in get those louis d'or?" CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be but which was triumphant, in reality. soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue which Marius had observed. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the rural police, and councillors of state. Venerate us. We are sacrificing bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little pray at all. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This limb. police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less playing tricks on each other. church." cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and leagues." extremity of the barricade: only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a "For your poor," he said. "You are going to get out of here." satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated The traveller paid to Lagny. world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its to be poor, yet his air was fine. On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, "Eat away." Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be perceived neither Basque nor the candle. While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case cart. It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that Then he perceived that she was weeping. At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance Loire. finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he "What?" the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm Night had come. "Yes, reverend Mother." moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave "Enter, sir," she said. utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to Fauchelevent went on:-- reduction, discarding all hatred. his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot a brat." them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." for him. wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and "Marius Pontmercy." chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed glimpse of in 1814. abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the will go." being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the occasionally had recourse: fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not upon Javert, was a rude shock.