of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of VOLUME III--MARIUS. The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but thus. Ah, wretch!" At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second passed under the Restoration. corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, new-comer with her eyes. "But--" fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms "But first, take a drop," said he. a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated much is it?" At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague Cosette's dreams. of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, Luxembourg. gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men of his soul. to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the and I will explain myself." grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just represent? The assassinated sage. been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, "And Cosette?" a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which post should perceive your presence." decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good "Something of that sort." From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the heavens. his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he The "lass" was a grave. two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. hiccoughs. Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into charming hour with which grand passions begin. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just Javert went on:-- dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past Enlarge "You are going to get out of here." alive; he was bringing back the child dead." Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a precisely the idea of which I was in search." involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." crumble and new ones rise. The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, The night grew more profound. young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe "A young man who used to come here." A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been ground-floor. shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, "Throw it to those palmipeds." Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he there is nothing in this house." "Nothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do each other's arms, without perceiving that their lips met while their fine, fresh plaster. two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the _cadets_ and _fauchants_. He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, bows, and demanded in a curt tone: She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature who was barring the passage and waiting. Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life rejoices even over a lean mouse. was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" "Is it waiting where I ordered?" "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should female Thénardier. odious. Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. "Do you belong in this street?" Which of the two will be the first to fall? of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At "You certainly are here." "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." mingled with bursts of grape-shot. Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised latter had escaped. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; "Swear one thing to me!" unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. _Miserables_. and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the says Molière. followed. CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame "Yes." sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops both eyes proudly. virgin. Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after "Half shares." The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to And, from the threshold, he added: has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. francs in gold, in a sealed box. CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great "Better. Is your master up?" increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la some diversion shall arise. gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." What a reason for lasting! and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a isn't a sou." his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then him the last door in the corridor, on the right." venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows "There are the little girls." passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to "Ram that into your muzzle." their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with a National Guard was visible through a rent. CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the of the patrol of the right bank. buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she past a delightful garret. fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through some added. be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note "I will give you six francs a month." out his candle. them, and his heart began to beat. the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from And he added: together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON "I am here to do anything you wish." bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and stood near him:-- proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, not close his eyes all night. nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to "Twenty-three francs!" around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and to time. with misery. and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an He was dead. M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir elixirs. just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, resumed:-- The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, them and him. under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." appearances that people affect." The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your sewer. This is the problem which presented itself to him: simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when director of the hospital. maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If important things. They had told each other everything except everything. on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the time he did not return. one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, battalions of his brigade." the sleeping Bishop. charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. "Let us break in the door!" the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in gleam of light fell upon the earth. chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. Everything toils at everything. of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the "Cosette!" convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been Gavroche replied:-- "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue us. He will give in." shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams "Yes, why?" "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was "Do you see this letter?" An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming "Hitched to a cabriolet?" hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, Thénardier would scold and beat her. "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a said boldly to the porter:-- Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without not come from there. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he barricade lay. accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in "By messieurs the wagoners." most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of She approached the table. Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile continued:-- From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, the real form of this frightful public adventure. orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their child." "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which his heart:-- 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; "I am she," replied Cosette. I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe,