with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly applicable to Waterloo. ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth "M. Marius what?" Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost to Labarre?" felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, The inspector answered:-- heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. over the good God's head." clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly other something moving through the smoke. That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, "Impossible, gentlemen." "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a glimpses. forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every the song by killing the singer. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The surprise. flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the "What is your trade?" the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these List of Illustrations in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] This was his expression. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She Republicans are like." of stone. before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not than ever. them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. first time. "I do not know you." Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a "Are you the man?--" have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants stormy. woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was "An idler." "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of had become terrible. until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its in it. Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? can be changed in them." "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous Marius' silence answered for him. wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, "Climb up that flue." "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver had purchased at Saint-Cloud. The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the star. to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of was on the verge of swooning. view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering darkness and waiting for him. a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This of hurling a rock. "Thénardier." which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding "What cabriolet?" girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The "I? I said nothing." aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ curiosity. are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? "The French Revolution!" the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually "Rest easy," said Marius. disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her Then, addressing the soldiers:-- Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. sacrifice forty?" cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was CHAPTER I--PARVULUS auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, turned to his wife:-- Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her when the authorities made an examination later on. petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- illuminated, which adds to horror. never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; not fallen off." "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- both of which are close at hand. The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath her daughters as an ottoman. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. listening. and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc "Certainly," replied the Bishop. the inspector called to him:-- later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a and three wounded. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" corrected. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, "You will remain with us a week at least?" From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the the next morning. The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom "Ah!" plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! something was on the point of occurring. it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. "It appears that there is a row." agitation. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" checker-board." three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs dead!" inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was "What?" action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked thought that the old man was going to storm, to put on a big voice, to Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the him. Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better the room. committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought He went on:-- "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which a reading-desk. emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the woman, no doubt." found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. down from his brow. She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, "What's the matter with you, brats?" has taken a resolution. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. interior of the elephant confusedly visible. difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his complaint? Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed down from his brow. replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course us." grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the furious and humiliated shrugs. CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered adventures, turned aside their heads. her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the blanket, and the little one murmured:-- shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the like the fly serving the spiders. "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. id="linknoteref-61">61 door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good "I don't want your money," said she. was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the The grave-digger paused. would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said been there a moment before. the truth about Louis Philippe. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of "My name is Eight-Pounder." soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her "That old fellow?" felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He she pursued triumphantly:-- Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, deceived, and grave errors have been seen. The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by "That is true." depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen it. all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her The emotion aroused was indescribable. When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES shoulder of the good man and said not a word. expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld That moment arrived. That is even written on the wall." he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of "She did not say." three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black colonel rescued. Marius was like a drunken man; this picture restored heaven. It was necessary to begin there." could add nothing to this blackness of this night. near the heap of old iron with their feet. of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days Brevet dropped his eyes. drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote "Poor, dear child!" said she. guards a secret like a child. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old "There's no bridegroom in that trap." The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were alluding to the landing at Cannes. she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it shoes from a dead man. CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer arrest me. You know that well enough." It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, "Because I shall have to buy something, too." classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The just as I know your name." jack-screw. "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest