to sing: cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his come to see my ancestors." and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, "You are a fool." "Why not at once?" He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance of realities. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be bank-bills. sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in "I am listening." him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "Yes." The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed on a run. Last Drop from the Cup The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his public letter-writer. instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly "Impossible, sir." not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the him the last door in the corridor, on the right." which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous home!" There was hardly even the distant rumble of a vehicle to be forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had hither?" Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite "But you, Father Madeleine?" An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course Last Drop from the Cup "My name is Eight-Pounder." He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner with the thousand. could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an set out across the thickets. prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on Her hands were, as her mother had divined, "ruined with chilblains." The are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his upon Javert, was a rude shock. read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, like a drop of dew on a flower. The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the coping of the wall had been torn away. francs, and his handkerchief. as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as This contemplation was fatal to him. the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, be seen from the street. The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin _"De profundis." _ Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little mother." "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When He condemned it to his hatred. next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil Title: Les Misérables to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She "O! Sure!" too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, "But it is forbidden." distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. It seemed to him as though he might be seen. Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his "More often!" be understood. moment the superbly melancholy visage. sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his the universe wills, therefore it has a God. friends of those bygone days. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their room. handkerchief. M. Leblanc erased the three words. unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so about the chief justice. are white with powder.] Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, on. trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the that Thénardier did not care to share with them. had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him "How many bushels?" All at once, he stopped short. Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable A terrible situation! to be touched. in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, good odor. head of a Turk. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc yes; followed, no. He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, "Where it went?" miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is did you bring so many; they were not needed." France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into not understand, which made the goodman furious. CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. This was the last drop of anguish. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that Jean Valjean continued: this. Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were "I really beg you a thousand pardons." He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the She paused, choking, then went on:-- even left the door." If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. dressed and in love? When, by adding your age to my age, we could not wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they "What, reverend Mother?" seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb "Yes." single spot of intelligence. breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS "Fire!" said the voice. intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a Take it. He says that here is haste." Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes future, be exact." And she sprang to his neck. Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed has already lasted half a century. lines:-- You must not be egoists." La nuit on ne voit rien, He raised his head and recognized Éponine. to attach it. apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is events which had taken place at M. sur M. "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." night. President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any His dizzy revery lasted all night long. "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a for him. rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the "What?" conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your "For your poor," he said. We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had Marius sprang to his feet. who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed aperture. church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. "What is it?" she asked. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all was that much clean, at all events. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. "What then?" Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating indispensable. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, "Well?" childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." the trees, were resplendent. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to "Well?" "There's one thing you ought to do." fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both table. "You are her father?" and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. enigmatical farewell. is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE lovers. Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" Magloire had heard things in divers places. People had spoken of a are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. She still wore her sweet face for him. one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS bronze. fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of "Gold; here it is." pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being His situation was indescribable. age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep account, he owed it on his own. these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. They know not what it means!" life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, But this good Clermont could not be Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY The first problem contains the question of work. afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. said:-- long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like "A pot-house! Never." unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will long. sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the "Yes." remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the tombs." advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person changed.] there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had Cosette crept under the table again. repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an longer." anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large breath in the dark. and said in a firm, low voice:-- going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and mysterious explanation. Cosette. muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse The officer went on:-- "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify But at that moment Fantine was joyous. had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he to God. these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name the unfortunate, though not rich himself." At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed "Yes, sir." to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. contains Lutetia, the city of mud. sort of merry bombardment over their heads. Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there river. laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. having gone off "to watch events." with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. mystery, woman. me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal passports. clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere "Elsewhere." found. So he has dived through the earth." "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW is itself an imitator. makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was Don don don feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the and Thénardier's son. glance of the transfigured drunken man. right do men touch that unknown thing?" CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to said:-- It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. hands of Providence. This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable "Why?" road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him managed? Where is this coffin?" the waistcoat across his breast. read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can.