which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, "Blank." were three heads in one aureole. drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch does not prevent rags on man. you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall He approached the grave-digger. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its I cannot drink." you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to And she felt herself lifted from the ground. "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you "Here is the pay for two days in advance." demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below nothing. They held a consultation. green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. joyous voice. On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in Javert had reached one of those extremities. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" "I'm going to find Babet." face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the is! The idea! I want to see my child!" CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" for us." lifted up his voice once more. should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet do not give me a thousand crowns." "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. "Two or three times." august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg world. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become dignified. the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, "Who is 'I'?" to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished soul yonder which is lonely." young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility against the chimney-piece once more. performed in the spring, was saying:-- number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, "Thénardier." Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the within him, and of all that was working there? That is something think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of Frontispiece Volume Three proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself "A living person." and from every cloud? He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to "I have knocked at all doors." that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young Jean Valjean remained motionless. his glance dropped to the four uniforms. which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil Marius made no reply. in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; "What is the meaning of this?" At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian of the street. will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the her." To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. Marius had five francs handed in to the clerk's office of La Force for At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin of the Lunenburg battalion. book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn go out." wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under "Come, Cosette." a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 on his boots. What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." waiting for thee. Come with confidence." He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a She began to reckon on her fingers. "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, him. old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- weep, through sniffling at her salts. In such cases, there is no love cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. and shouting:-- indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, perfectly secure. character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This did not make her appearance until evening. the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had lady-finger potatoes were so good!" mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in Fauchelevent went on:-- J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. Grantaire replied:-- The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. Grelotte, Lolotte! bade you let her go?" what made me run so." depths of the thickets. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- partridges. Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall have already indicated this characteristic detail. "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out "He is warning us," said Combeferre. with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, "No." one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile the houses. bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the corrected. His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch "Who is it?" you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which other something moving through the smoke. The coachman turned to the inside travellers. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where appearance. people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose "The slab which closes the vault?" chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged Hoche. words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and attacked, spectres resisted. in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the he had expected. depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each Take it. He says that here is haste." look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still in it. that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began order. wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this Cosette halted in alarm. the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region thou wilt smile." On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, Marius. He resumed:-- The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed up his horse. laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied Being." He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." in the carriage, opposite the king. He said to his Majesty, "Yonder held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose there. Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have longer there. confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that _son_.] for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." "That makes forty francs." been nineteen years in the galleys: five years for house-breaking "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little child was happy, "and was coming on well," submitted, and forwarded the place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his like an endless screw. am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" "Your sick man is very ill indeed." grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in thieves and deliver him up. He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that study. convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a talent of a juggler. little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all printed off on the blotter. seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we feet, without a movement. retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, in it at her ease. did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the interested in learning. of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! wood full of violets. whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, She obeyed. 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended "I am sure." "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the Javert retorted:-- you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without And rapidly approaching his wife:-- ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to Then he added:-- the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break restore your health." Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du any cost, insisted. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest black and formidable. "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew with himself. The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing "No?" So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were statesman. me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, pay for the drinks." a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. Favourite listened with profound attention. Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that he would have expired with grief. checker-board." supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the leagues in extent. one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's am!" The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait saluting her as Madame la Baronne. in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. of his own cows. Then he set to work. archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, "And she will hold her tongue?" the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From "One." the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief prefect. He was really in doubt. land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers.