the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that "You have not given me anything." by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the his name on the card." toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with "With that poor Marius." that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and Saint-Antoine. in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last serve no use, and do no great harm. Up to that time, he had not believed in God. that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" From these two things combined, the public power without, individual BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young The two children followed close on his heels. night. proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the I who have pointed him out to her." "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her happened? Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake "No. In lowering the coffin." "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. "'With my road marked out for me.' insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a "I." Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to Cosette With Letter again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its "For whom is this letter?" He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander eagle. Fauchelevent. Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's of Cavalry, a royalist who at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, ready to march onward. Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ chair. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. a brat." "Then speak quick." it. by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy law of the earth. Jean Valjean replied: which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must And after a silence she went on:-- melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals door of a house open, and I entered. breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going of a lover." window. short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, unforeseen blow. the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a than he should guard himself. Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would She was shivering. over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent Nothing shall stop me." light to shine through. hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- _winter salon_. are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him "Nineteen years." which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. shop over the way." eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the conscious. the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted death. The hollowing of that pitiless nail could be felt there. His scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an "Get into bed," replied the man. "That is true," said Jean Valjean. He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- back. very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the they passed: this manner she reached the spring. a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were man's self-sufficiency. Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the man. Each of us can profit by it." at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean "Ultime Fauchelevent." stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other from Madeleine:-- he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket possess paradise, we desire heaven. smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; mingle:-- of life been established between this celestial little creature and that "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at "It is well," said Jean Valjean. my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the particularly on the part of Aunt Gillenormand. Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. in the blood. sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall of her bones two months previously. "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat She seized the coin. speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. task of isolating the elephant. garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he the Seine. less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate table: misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that would be terrible." The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE prepared for certain renunciations. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still "An idler." ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following waiting." doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have in the morning?" _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad he followed Cosette to the Rue de l'Ouest. Another day he spoke to masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; exclaimed, "What frights they are!" body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. more." with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of The prisoner signed. dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light "You know that a mother died this morning?" saying and hearing! and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, throw one's self in the water. man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" "He is an ex-convict." hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How Six stout horses drew a coach. outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck nearly as follows, etc.] He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is A kiss, and that was all. framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch "Hey?" had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those itself was protected by a metal case. in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, J'aime mieux ma mère!"