was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, Fauchelevent replied:-- back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her "What then?" remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, sorrow cannot curve. Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some The member of the Convention resumed:-- _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the of him! placed at the door of the tomb. "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict old blackguard, you child-stealer!" dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word No one and every one. evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without Thénardier resumed: by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he overturned his basket. chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated CHAPTER II--ROOTS she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- roughened with brandy and liquor. name was Jean Valjean." Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible to get out." concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the still about fifty francs in debt. had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of "What is it?" is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, At that moment, nine o'clock struck. erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris language of André Chenier:-- iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing like that." Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver other. that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the little sister did not stir. Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that "I will learn English and German." to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised blessing." remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by the sound proceeded. Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without "Where do you come from?" CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain to mention it. around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and "What's this?" she exclaimed. refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Valjean alighted. birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. neither assent nor refusal. mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words Nothing had happened. Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they his heart:-- strangling is! off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an hue, and appeared to be mouldy. jumping, and a turkey spreading its tail, a chapel surmounted by a small The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the to find it again. in broad daylight. and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. house. which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with white." these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes "Fours." families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. Republicans are like." others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, experienced a moment of happy coquetry. making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN over and over again. She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, "Is she still there?" heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- his own conscience, but the act of Providence. passed through it. She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with existed, they would have been invented there. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it event of the worst, Thermopylæ. "No." He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." what it termed our encroachments were our rights. beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said knocking the house down." sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in shout no, and to lift his cane at all that aurora. Not a bit of it. been caught by a sheep. pierced the roof. There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of "Are you alone?" without raising their voices. Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy He replied:-- from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, "A certain--What did you say the name was?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, the young tree which is sawed off at the root? in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook with the persistence of the _I_. "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had D'un écrit apocryphe flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. he wrote: "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, "But I do not." Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." surprise. a sovereign manner. streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they The sister replied:-- the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and though they had known beforehand where that figure was. one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean My most respectful complements, "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on And he left the room. touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first One day Cosette said to him:-- across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was "What house is this?" one." "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. Beginning with 1813, he repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. "I'm sure that I know him." Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue guards a secret like a child. to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only Thénardier! Now do you know me?" of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some "You will remain with us a week at least?" ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, begins to behold the stars of the tomb? pane all for nothing." her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to The father replied: added:-- point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, "That's settled," said the grandfather. "Yes, reverend Mother." was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. there. glance behind him. He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. years old at that time. sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as declared itself long before. plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, blood. He is alone. His name is God. sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling confounded again with the invisible. Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at fate has hitched him. if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was "Madame Thénardier." fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. cemetery." stupid majesty which befits white creatures. present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? archbishop of the diocese. days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross worse for it. civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of pay for the drinks." he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. "My gun! Here they are!" hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did "At La Force." way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his wide open. accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. himself, because he is unhappy. and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of the captain to show himself. together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS examines like a downcast eye. writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine before her in desperation. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I Bishop. of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a who is permitted to toddle alone. evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in "Nothing." "Mr. Marius, are you there?" The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse your choice, Cato. It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated cells which we have already mentioned. into it. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want "Soon." cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on on the ground, and took his departure. symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and Javert's mind. and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out shed a little light. As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; embrasure. "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! studded with stars. and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years CHAPTER IV--A