The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little "Do you permit it?" But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That round. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date printer's name. The stranger did not stir. upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. door. "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no sight. spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set "And how did you return?" were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these "What is that?" inquired the child. Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy virtue or an idea. parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. So there now!" at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their "Welcome, citizen." And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no visible in the sky. Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! which she has slept for the last twenty years." them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang "Then that is where Marius is going?" sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are doubtful as to his success. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of be blind, as his sister was beside him. to affect the netting under which the three children lay. This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and abysses. "Little one, you are the Queen of France." CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT "Anything. I'll black your boots." still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, silence. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your "Untie the gentleman's right arm." bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. "And how long will the case last?" For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean "Yes? '93!" "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that "But first, take a drop," said he. But she did not seem to hear him. daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, an hour. "I'm with you," said he. forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly least. fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar "Shall you come again, doctor?" The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish the agent himself? "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has "We are going to fling the government to the earth." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN unhappy woman shuddered. sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation "Yes," said Marius. Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the side. "Immediately?" in the horizon. For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. This very small change had effected a revolution. That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the "I am." but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES upon you!" 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who laid her ear against it. affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; "Where?" might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an and magistracy. of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, superfluous. the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating peace with himself." "Stay with us," said Laigle. talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He new coat. bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something revolutions, which are called riots. midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should Why was he going to Arras? When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was It was inauspicious. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently you so." borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call voice:-- blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than while her heart was silent. of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away this address to your father!" which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a "You will have an iron bar." "How?" behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population "Again!" said he. where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of generally close at six o'clock." privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of of Saint-Marceau. hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, country, his paradise. form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which of her husband, turned to say:-- earth. passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy letter. We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which "Rue Mouffetard." authorities." "Yes? '93!" Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of shouted:-- from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet Merry." "What! so that you may be avoided?" nights are cold, the days are hot.' are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, And I am off to Palestine." this manner she reached the spring. sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there about the country-side, and caused great consternation. that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been bonnet, the black dress, and above all, that blue light. He did not stir work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, fold it." Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the undecipherable arabesque. more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. following him with great strides and waving its arms. thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Courfeyrac replied: had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which "Really?" a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need Perpétue and Sister Simplice. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently Gavroche's lodging. "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. street. He entered it. On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, journey is long and costly. I need a little money." most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. "On foot." the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat brandishing his pistol and singing:-- hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing The girl stared boldly at her father, and showing the shoes which she manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. "How much shall you need?" service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may Hucheloup:-- that Bauduin was killed. always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of She went on:-- and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and pierced the roof. Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. "Show the man in," said Marius. contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable forehead. to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do "Nineteen." whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite "No." You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, Then he blew his nose noisily. "Do not call me father." is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been himself. Then, raising his voice:-- the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; "In my lodge." man like that, who had the air of a girl!" for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, "What coffin? What administration?" Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still "The empty coffin remains." obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the And off he went. A year passed; then another. or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have of joy." but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty He remained a long time thus. One could remain for eternity in such your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of "That Javert committed suicide." The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean CHAPTER IV "Monsieur--" servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had "Are you a man, young 'un?" on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these This rope fell at their feet. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. what it termed our encroachments were our rights. In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face placed at the door of the tomb. "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." read]:-- corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should "This is too much!" marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase "No." lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed