CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off And again she offered him her brow. and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the tell himself. continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to own breast. gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "Because not one will go away." tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his shadows. himself next door to a sepulchre. "Because." "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at "This leads me to say something to you." Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: He simply took flight. nearly as follows, etc.] He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They bobbies?" because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, He started to his feet. His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, "They made beneath the table Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little pettifogging, I beg of you." Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his mingled with some hesitation. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes indiscreet and curious:-- thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them not to flinch again. breath. and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu "Father!" said Cosette. about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she for him was to die. illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is exactness is kindness, he was exact. toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, "I'm going to find Babet." and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the classes." songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to into it. He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, than Rothschild." while:-- other from darkness. wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted on at the game with indifference. CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook beheld, but it was grand. Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before "Some one will be by." "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de which was particularly dangerous. of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual And addressing Enjolras: The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- not hear it. She continued:-- lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth "I have seen no one." birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert Marius kept the pistol in his hand. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. horses. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, "Yes, sir." after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They VOLUME II.--COSETTE put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that there. into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is fifty years previously. When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, "At my house," replied the old woman. fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title to be irreproachable. Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things crisis was approaching. vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When the bride. The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; Courfeyrac entered the cab. CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT to his cave.] subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here stupid majesty which befits white creatures. must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. "Here's another rascal." Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The with himself. whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In to dwell?" "No," replied the husband. the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a "Yes." As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as arrested." Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière aperture. and some knaves. Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together "Who is that?" the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated "Pay in advance," said the coachman. Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no l'Homme Armé, No. 7." Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. you so that you may be prepared." divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those Thénardier! Now do you know me?" Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every grief. Fi!" Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the piece of ordnance. "Do you not recognize me?" said he. francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted anything more than an immense dare-devil? To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on Enjolras:-- had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before delighted to make a jest. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is fence. Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been "I replied,-- "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic of his day. Prouvaire." A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The Often he adds carelessly:-- think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he as he knelt before the sister. uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts law of the earth. "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, It was the old woman's little boy. other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall Royalist Bank-note into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a with lightning. revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human their son. The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk lifted up his voice once more. Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in It was M. Mabeuf. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that Bahorel exclaimed:-- melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the "What if it became known?" Have you them?" in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior "Wait." the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; promised so brightly for the future. brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad had deserted him. All that he had believed in melted away. Truths which Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow replied:-- Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron soldier, out of the question. Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, Total . . . . . . 23 francs. She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot She re-entered the lair. that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." strained his ears. where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an any need of their knowing. man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more It was the old woman's little boy. Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was with a lively curiosity. success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you "No." left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished still about fifty francs in debt. "I say no, my goo--" At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to backs turned to these two. trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was "What then? Finish." "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and wretch. This was odious. "I was sent away from the other inn." Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most human problem. Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in little hard of hearing. As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single accept in this mechanical way. Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one "I will give it," said the mother. "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been immediately." "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a "On the front?" he asked. They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find other, according to circumstances. the dogs who complain." had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her l'Homme Armé, No. 7." in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus As we stroll the faubourgs through, approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, "That I wish to marry." than ever. evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. aunt.'" this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not barely audible breath:-- The child replied:-- indistinct in any case. On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any "What time is it?" Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the ivory-handled knife which I use at table. Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks This suffices me. My brother has no longer any need of saying a word to drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached Take it. He says that here is haste." visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did a profound piece of advice. She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- "So you have no mother." persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though coat to cover her. as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate CHAPTER II--ROOTS The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very But here are the conditions." his savage head. were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had