precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something the night had been very dark. sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius and his soul filled with a strange light. listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; movement remains its law, nevertheless. Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his the immense blue pane of the firmament! avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the to another. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him CHAPTER IV--A of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an reduction, discarding all hatred. jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison there. were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they that isolated quarter. than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had wood, iron and cords. "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted say." vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his "Somewhat." was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, Whence arises this fault? was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was deliver the letter. Give it here." Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of breast. close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned Tuileries." petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an "That's true," said Bossuet. them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; It was Sister Simplice. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent flower. top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for he had three francs left. And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and will not scold you." and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! "None of that, Lisette!" entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious out at full length, and exclaimed:-- Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon There he fell asleep and had a dream. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that "What, reverend Mother?" counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of And she offered him her cheek. "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see makes one shudder!" when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were "What! No dowry?" had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when Thénardier! Now do you know me?" Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England "Speak." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard was no end of them." CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such voices were heard calling from the well. The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted "And when do you start?" detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There INDIA As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing tutu, pointed hat!] transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his "To-morrow you shall have some dainty little green silk boots!" said the To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, with that?] will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken discuss the question." table was singing hers. evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, "And Cosette?" precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held "Here?" inquired a voice. About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her faint light of liberty which men call death. himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this "Of course. He told us." who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, aunt.'" All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose "There's no bridegroom in that trap." the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. horses. Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and me.' "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly It was a dog's kennel. "Feel how cold I am," said she. The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that have been cut for some time. And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, "I weep for all," said the Bishop. all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and Here the rag-picker interposed:-- advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth to answer:-- her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. A year passed; then another. besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, intestine? The sewer. to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. slangs and to speak none of them. "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be "That is the concern of the good God." All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, and of gleams full of radiance. unforeseen blow. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one "That is good." could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these window to the other. opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only long time?' "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I "No." kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed strained his ears. lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his "As an ex-convict." position! else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This "What else remains?" plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the succession over her soul. everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, "How do you amuse yourself?" vaguely, and said:-- the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- Perpétue and Sister Simplice. Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS all sorts of dark edifices. once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty no time for anything except love. of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. woman. Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is Night had fully come. being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history resemble shaved heads. What was the object of the second man? the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these "And what good does it do to know him?" down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" think. I can do what I please about it." had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and these strange documents:-- ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'