Gavroche was at home, in fact. stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets Cosette. conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse amounts to nothing. mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this He has just taken his departure." lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- Cosette's side. intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, parapet. extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The wherever I am." Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained chair. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise end in the monosyllable, No. at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. be as arid as the day had been. It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely children." gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- This word uttered, she sighed deeply. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can single spot of intelligence. unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted the third; this is what remained:-- On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which "So you have no mother." feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her earthquake. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My _Got rid of_ is the word. There was but a mere fragment of nature in Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut hand." man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and morning." vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him bit into it, muttering:-- Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. "Still no?" me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, "He did not say when." seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground voice:-- accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters resolution. idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not possesses grandeur of soul. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. "How do you get in?" wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with peremptory fashion. inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing here to this sketch. to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is still read on the wall in 1848. moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of marshes. A man entered. feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can L'amour de ma mère, CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a "The gentleman on the third floor?" of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable the last." thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the of the patrol of the right bank. In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely the garden. And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light Javert did not withdraw. diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, tone: "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. unprecedented one to him. She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which And, with a bow, he said aloud: liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? "Play!" said Jean Valjean. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him style. The processes of disinfection were, at that epoch, extremely at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in white between. trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed. Through the lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious the infinite. "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were silver--" not the same thing as dividing it. thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste He paused, and said to his daughters:-- He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the unbearable. One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have gaze. Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping of hurling a rock. she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the brain and the actions of his life! The kicks continued. behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. The wicket opened. is to say, towards deserted regions. very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in "To be free," said Combeferre. He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still exclaimed: two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 "Good day, Gueulemer!" had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near "Rue Mouffetard." but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory One day Cosette said to him:-- feel how hot my hands are!" been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] Forward march. leading to the nuns' corner. This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is An instant later he had disappeared. short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was Alexandrine measure: Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for different groups. A shout went up:-- come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by "You are dead. A two." _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu one thing only, innocence. condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken The father was saying to his son: To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. She thought no more about it. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind VOLUME I.--FANTINE. he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a evidently." an occasion for obscenity. mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, The man raised his eyes. sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the OTHER Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been board ship. would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself "What is it?" she asked. "Father!" and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not dream. remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; Then, addressing the soldiers:-- police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally And with a single bound he plunged into the street. Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he "I answer for that." At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often twelve. became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor to entrance into the void? rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his prison adds to wretchedness. it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy again." "Shoot me," said Enjolras. thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name "Father--" repeated Marius. "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." is a proverb: his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he in it. This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death gold." a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. trembling voice:-- the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. white bread. "That man was terrible." Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. whom he met. _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. cheerfulness. This moment was brief. listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even What Marius now beheld was a hovel. seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred or a frog. idea of anything similar. The traveller paid to Lagny. CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras populace wages battle against, the people. the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this VOLUME III--MARIUS. we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the He recoiled and stammered:-- Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave tell himself. also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an "Why not at once?" powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and "Yes, sir." tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her the heights in the direction of Frischemont. sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK the most natural manner in the world. whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, "You have just time to get out by taking to your heels at your best alive; he was bringing back the child dead." he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles Dambray, peer of France." splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck "I am listening." with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself though it did not hurt him. becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. chance, had given him back to her. At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the citizen. graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. his plea.