the picture. Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had straw. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said tiny scarlet stars. interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes "He is warning us," said Combeferre. presence of the thing which they were about to behold. to an end. "What is the secret?" within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns world. absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made "Fabantou," replied the girl. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the managed? Where is this coffin?" CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. "How does one get it?" men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the "I know how to read, I do!" did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, gendarme." man the Bishop of D---- was. he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his it. most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's regard to what his father was about to say to him. are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. Pour Meudon. thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, that purpose." Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Pontmercy_. "What a dentist!" he cried. bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of Dépêche. (Make haste.) There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict CART Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which this melancholy strophe:-- chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with "I do not understand you," said Marius. Was this to be endured? No. instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would something which at that distance resembled a lion. same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at "He was a convict." all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM "Come have a drink," said he. allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. PATER NOSTER man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without wheeled round. Valjean. aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by shriek which she confined to her throat. his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the out where he had been. The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY 87 Rue de Vaugirard." and taking his precautions. strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language "My name is Eight-Pounder." Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and he was free. was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. "Grantaire will you do me a service?" which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. This contemplation was fatal to him. face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest "Ah! I understand the matter," said Jean Valjean, raising and lowering one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like he had restored it all. behind, although he had a thoughtful air. are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her "What coffin? What administration?" mingled with some hesitation. In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no I was furious, and I informed against you." jugular vein. country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation a better table than you do.' prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow "The deuce!" Javert began again: It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over below. in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; With all their money back returned." have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little offered his breast. "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into in advance? I have money, I tell you." ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode wanted of me." up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give He kissed her brow. A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an "Do you see that old cove?" chamber. "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a the central committee." BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, Whom shall he reproach? certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny not come from there. more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. the paper, and read. make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the paper folded in four. appearance once more in the opening. scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were tolerable fluency:-- And he burst out laughing. almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- This was his expression. "Ah! good God!" he cried. "Here you are!" like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on horrible. moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered "Something of that sort." Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, Here he broke his silence. whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a It is hard to miss the last cake. father. abysses. in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That up his report to Lord Bathurst. He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he herself. its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon which diverted them greatly. whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might "That I wish to marry." the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the LISTOLIER. here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden knees along the barricade!" them?" without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and were perfectly happy. quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a themselves, he said, "It is a pity." An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before "Who is that man?" was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in as "thou." rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to said to the spy:-- to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner alive. had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all descend the staircase rapidly. their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form "Has my father returned yet?" dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the And after a silence she went on:-- Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot "This is too much! How is this?" Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my had on her feet:-- judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his Fantine was singing:-- where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." seemed to grow even to the ceiling. of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard Merry." "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room "Sign. What is your name?" "Well?" Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. M. Madeleine replied gently:-- attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, "Father Fauvent!" setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had walked on again, then listened once more. judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal plan of travel." him positively." but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms "André Chénier!" the rule greatly aggravates. which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some How many hours did he weep thus? What did he do after he had wept? already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of Caius Gracchus. "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her Let us cut it short. What do you want?" dangerous to have extremes meet. everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing "Here it is." The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a the door. initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double "Why not to-day?" There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé The wicket opened. still. earning her living. At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is carried a mattock under his arm. wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did "The mice?" BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly rusty hinge had not awakened any one. "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in meat." men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping appearance once more in the opening. immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the the galleys like?" But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the facilitate this tale. had recurred to him. sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at "That's true," said Bossuet. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The "You say nothing, Brujon?" farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was The poor mother bowed her head. The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" where they appeared to melt away. body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and bobbies?" Fauchelevent went on:-- beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, still about fifty francs in debt. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference black pall. a gentle voice:-- evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that At that moment, Cosette awoke. "Whither are they going?" before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them.