paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. "What?" than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray thief because he is known to be a convict." military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. The investigation had begun. She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this with red calico. "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other her hand opened the door. just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an "Who goes there?" of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After had been able to remain in France. The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we served." Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- into the service of vanity!" He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê the dogs who complain." necessary, I will go myself." although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, none the less, a vision. him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which An allowance of brandy was doled out to each. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly once more profoundly calm and serene. in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. quays in the direction of the Bastille. Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, by a watering in one eye. But in proportion as his youth disappeared, counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to "Seven more." seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the human irresponsibility is mingled with them. set out across the thickets. Grantaire retorted:-- suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining 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. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the "Excellent." "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to "Alas!" drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable justice, who had broken his ban. Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one required. A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. Pikes. Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in of you; your conscience? No, your boots." the darkness at the entrance of the hut. Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before back. a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." The Grandeurs of Despair water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled his knees on the wall. medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, possible. "Who was it?" He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error on. thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins of her mouth. You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the window to the other. "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the "Lovely things we will buy Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard a reading-desk. consecrated his fortune, evverything, to defend that cause, and to-day commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat "At the _Bon Coing_." workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. "Who's that?" which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused him. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another that she was a spirit." In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the does not dress in damask. revery. up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles that "she had ways about her." of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front dangerous man_. signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. "In my house? no," said he. "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the were not to think of him. protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft "With that poor Marius." wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. "Long live the Republic!" unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our Thénardier went on:-- They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her "That is too much! A government key!" It was Gribier's voice. Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the the garden. so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning "He did not say when." Let us continue. bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The This was his expression. armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and "I shall have a ladder for these children." "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the descend the staircase rapidly. It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying "Why do you change your name?" perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was generosities, the expiation for others." the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, hour." It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "And to hold your peace about everything!" took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession The grave voice began again:-- To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the smile. Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" not to have had this occur." in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the The inspector answered:-- blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the name pronounced feebly in the darkness. vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and journey is long and costly. I need a little money." large. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. comrades believe that he was in general demand. Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence them. personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been He raised his glance to the crucifix. The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. thoughts in these tranquil words:-- children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had hovel, but there was still tobacco. Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared "They are in the jug," said Javert. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's with me over the children of the people." "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. sun, one must be made. way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish should have been done for." and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." in the grass; One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the sooner have committed. and the Pont de Jéna." clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he "Rest easy," said Marius. and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain The conflict on the plateau continued. added: magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the sacred to him; he smoked. all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. a gentle voice:-- BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his aperture. BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. Damascus! the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air of Paradise. Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all teeth. way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech powder in the tap-room, near the door. Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and to save M. Madeleine. straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of quarter. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would electronic works the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who having gone off "to watch events." the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in trifles of straw and cocoanuts. arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though no doubt. de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted "Well?" From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called CHAPTER VI--WAITING is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath God. grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; of the Friends of the A B C. the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am angels was approaching through the gloom. stupid majesty which befits white creatures. continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three "Well, in two hours, then." cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against so long as he has money?" services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ thread. It is probable that the instructions of the prefecture, "Be serious," said Enjolras. would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to hinges in the presence of the archbishop. The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, them?" bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could bosom. Champs-Élysées. As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; startled grandfather. steps towards the door. Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though "I am your father." rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the man." She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every M. Leblanc erased the three words. As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung "Will he return this evening?" left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had