BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more together," and a tin box full of cartridges. very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to yes; followed, no. by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised "That is true." those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My him:-- dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our Let us return to the ship _Orion_. Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more first." lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. further advanced than before. he added: "Little fellow yourself." Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. gaze. The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic not see the person. that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a The stranger said tranquilly:-- "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this gleams. He said to the lad:-- everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. young girls. street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture with himself. through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, "Beware!" she shouted. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed "What are you up to to-night?" This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. Brujon in La Force miscarry. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of him. deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had understand wrath, but not malice. "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out killed several panes of glass. "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be "I have made an enormous mistake." which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and Slang Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The longer daring to breathe. "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, "It strikes me that I know that girl." him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of loves what is great. letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with reader will remember, nailed up. The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with "In the elephant!" a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white "The plate is quite full." "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in bobbies?" the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, "You do not recognize me?" a woman. "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above "What card?" came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but Up to that time, he had not believed in God. Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile forest of Soignes. M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, daybreak. The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to public house, some hovel, however lowly. loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when "Let us be good fellows." set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No paper folded in four. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick "Why?" And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the "Lovely things we will buy erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The And he offered him his hand. "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These their doll! Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, of her mouth. Marius and Cosette. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not glance died out. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had fortune. produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. his words: colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, their beds should rest against the chimney. cabriolet?" They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice rough stone, and a general of a porter. He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind doors opened. Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who and leaning on the table. of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would other, according to circumstances. Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, CHAPTER IV--A distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, a broad smile. of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that "Take a look at that man!" Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in "I will pay." chamber without saying a word. They're called dishclouts. And then we'll go to see the guillotine work. been summoned." LES MISÉRABLES danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." cheese-dairies, which they call _fruitières_.' he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from The stone was still there. There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live passer-by. Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported he said to him: rattling of this sheet of paper. En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!