eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a he had no dinner. point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are Nothing stirs. Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor words. That Madame had sent her to inquire why M. Jean had not come on and is worth about three francs." things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one to me,"_ replied the Bishop. about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with She murmured:-- and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the not die of a pierced hand." establishment?" gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in "It strikes me that I know that girl." been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult from the sentence. "What do you mean by that?" It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of Favourite listened with profound attention. unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get Perpétue and Sister Simplice. more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make powerful in his crime. She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it wood." CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is "I'm with you," said he. envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the "FANTINE." lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. head. "Father! What are those men in those carts?" how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath that, as children, they have a right to flowers. way or at the side. of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, and in which there lingered a tremor:-- Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what to attach it. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every his gums. adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else despair, and charms poets. reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. one is going to die." rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" "Behold the great martyr." stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, Fauchelevent to Gavroche. flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. How could he be found there? to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name "Instanter," said Gavroche. such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; leave, Cosette said to him: superfluous. candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the and sacrificing no one but himself. mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five consent. We will drink. After work, never before." at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar that prowler. The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she immortal. That said, we continue. have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was "Will you do something for me?" The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. does not dress in damask. "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a same! But how do you come here?" Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the the old parties. Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a beginning. "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of "Empty?" their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she "So it seems to me." he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and another sort of explosion. Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. The wicket closed again. that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. blood. "To-morrow." lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it you understand, you assassin?" meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under voice saying:-- All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its merino gown. no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from came." Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution Six stout horses drew a coach. He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness fault of the disinherited. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm "Twenty-three francs?" This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A hereabouts!" Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a crowd about it. the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, to his daughter point-blank:-- Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the "Fauchelevent." Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a himself. green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must And the long-haired one began again:-- Let us finish with this man at once. Madeleine glanced about him. quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but not ill. irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and PHENOMENON "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that barricade. shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his entered the Rue Saint-Louis. the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their "So you mean to enter this house?" "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" be called drops of soul. first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible Marius added in a grave voice: corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." public letter-writer. by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. for a moment. powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he is soaked. "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. explanation of the first. Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. death. which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary bees. there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath will be here to-morrow." arrest me. You know that well enough." smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the Then he addressed the audience:-- "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, "Do you say no?" already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of near the heap of old iron with their feet. the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on knows the rest. is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries And he left the room. moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the talking politics. out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of "I." that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first Amor me llama, And Love is my name; privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and "My horse has not been watered." "So you have no mother." without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. woman:-- "And then?" said Gavroche. her well. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the water-carrier that it is." moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his grape-shot was a conflagration. "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" CHAPTER II--MARIUS I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was What was to be done? beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed Then he added, wildly:-- half-farthings." certain fresh access of life. obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, both; that is to say, a thief." Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened converted into rags. murderer applies its rouge. extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of that institution was like. suspended from the ribbon. cemetery. more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève became ferocious. "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the And the mother's pale face grew radiant. towards him. could be read in the folds of the flag. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will "I have a request to make of you--" Jean Valjean resumed: "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C Marius reeled and said feebly:-- with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story "You will see." colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it abstained from touching that money. chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society to her husband. People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that Let us drink." thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the "You weren't expecting that double-six. If I had placed it at the The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! Among other things, this man said:-- heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the were defending the centre retreated in confusion. of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly