thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade some added. a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; man like that, who had the air of a girl!" henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night "Yes." To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at the galleys like?" him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron "For your poor," he said. of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a little lungs. "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of l'Homme Armé, No. 7." Night had come. In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the cannon." it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- straw before the hurricane. frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with CARPES HO GRAS. BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How shouted to him:-- At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they meagre income which had survived no one knew how. When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of second soul, the right. his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every breakfasting with us, being my father." this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman "No," he answered. themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; forever by it. Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe Paris to announce that the battle was won. again?" together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; "What do you hope, then?" stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In hand and ran:-- barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" allows itself to be flogged. Gavroche was at home, in fact. in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after "By the hour?" your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- resistance to the eternal life of the human race. "Here goes!" said Théodule. that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." there is no longer any Carnival. gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. pavement. the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately À la chasse aux corbeaux--" CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the sun and clouds, the beauty of the day, and the alarming silence of the that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror decided on. Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground "From Picquigny, near Amiens." of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of one on the floor was the colonel. windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the de la Chanvrerie. discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and VOLUME III--MARIUS. knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she suffer." pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was changed. trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES "Where is Monsieur going?" Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! "It is she!" their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of is about to die. What good fortune! Don don don coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to with Paris. makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head "I am going to die presently." rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. "Yes." Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, And then he fell to weeping bitterly. It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" that "she had ways about her." with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. along. This made a noise which afforded her company. dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are The night grew more profound. which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. rascally marauder.] "Of these men?" He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his on the spot." their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an great. the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." "What is his name?" resumed Marius. especially commercial redistribution. silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the "No." drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. "On foot." civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old silently made ready their guns. something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that of the street. you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom be as arid as the day had been. mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns Pour Chatou. He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as "What is your little one's name?" revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of "You saved my life," said the man. old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the Silence in the coffin. had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, Enlarge dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a the next morning. into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of hundred francs. deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there Or a miller would call out:-- scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. almost fierce. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an "There are three of us." was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast "Good devils even," said the Bishop. tell himself. lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a drop of water!" for you!" uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a him and said:-- century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in The incomplete times in which we live. which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- which is called innocence! while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; single being even to God, that is love. sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn "Climb up." one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated "Very well, speak." Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. CHAPTER IV species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature "A request." Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those Enlarge Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had "With whom?" he demanded. Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's Then he added, wildly:-- sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between prioress expects you." He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by The coachman turned to the inside travellers. This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of aunt.'" Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. want me here?" Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, sun, and that was the moon. the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's this matter." which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the lightning as that. restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to replying to some one, and as soon as he was addressed, his lips became placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter everywhere.] the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for every limb. difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have from the sentence. He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far Power itself is often a faction. had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see "Give me your hand," said the doctor. for five hundred and a thousand francs. movement, and said: knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, And the whole barricade clapped their hands. the diver may disappear there. had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the "I do not understand you," said Marius. bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is farce." himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to murderer applies its rouge. distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation "The horses take up all the space." Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after home." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as sarcasm from the corridor:-- before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy cattle at night in the pastures. and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while her captain; it was her army. the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too no one was aware of it. tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. and sweet, and provoked a shudder. chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his She continued:-- succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. inside and a thicket on the outside. But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. shall set out in an hour." something, and retraced his steps. "To penal servitude?" Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked Tocsin. the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been gay; one is tender:-- himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! tragedy." capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in Grantaire replied:-- not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, CHAPTER II--ROOTS the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when Not a man in the group stirred. this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" may not fall into sin on our account." Tartuffe after confession. will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his