Courfeyrac with a laugh. He inquired:-- That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against and threw them at the men. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all Marius assumed a grave tone: formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along These were this man's first words:-- others,--would have been a disorganized flight. road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be "Yes." Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external Éponine made a final effort. the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to pretty." "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along Thénardier counted for but one man. All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister happiness. He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with "Father!" said she. seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the CHAPTER I--WELL CUT the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, continued:-- the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean of the colossus could be distinguished. is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. repulsive in this light. At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find "Smile." the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient cartridges left in the barricade." candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, support. It was high time. "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows "Have not you an intimate friend?" of his soul. to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute "But--" Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean order. earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, shoulder of the good man and said not a word. and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was "Is it all over, Jondrette?" gaze of Dante. in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. Madeleine turn round. upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the "You will see." As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate "Monsieur Dorimon." sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes As he spoke, Jondrette did not look at M. Leblanc, who was observing All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when "My father!" month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. the coat . . ." on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He vent to that startling cry:-- will pay as though I occupied a room." "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, mouth."] his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, cries. of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took And who, with gentle hands, do clear the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- was burning there. "That makes no difference to me." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of "Well, what of that?" possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion he felt nothing. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her of his comrades. Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the him. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read fear of the red to horned cattle." lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues heard. Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you paying for it. Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, fault has passed." At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that a moment before:-- Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier together. Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was shouted:-- the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search square. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie "--General Bauduin received orders to take the château of Hougomont shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the it to Madame Magloire. black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, get you again!" "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. "All day long?" "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not Don don don to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular Surlababi mirlababo have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution sine expressa superioris licentia_. Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and with misery. distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six had become unrecognizable. "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, "Yes." Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who the English call respectability for his house. She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the him the last door in the corridor, on the right." now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without "Yes," said the mother. earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing last. Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth and you will never mention his name to me." lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace good odor. Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. the window. The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in out at full length, and exclaimed:-- CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de for his country, and the As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this CHAPTER I--PARVULUS fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the "So, you will go?" _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about possibility had presented itself. "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police "What do you mean by that?" "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still which he had purchased. you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been window. He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." M. Leblanc:-- There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have other, and probably a volume of the same romance. house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop. It was a little boy "Yes." Cosette herself. morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the the dogs who complain." A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the this time all had come. and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed a child. When he had reached the last step, when this trembling and terrible misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has than a cemetery. when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the hand--his whole fortune, probably. who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath sewer. If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled "Do you designate who is to remain." The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. great one, Jeanne's, still held out. heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all her tiny hand. On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored provided he be a god. done nothing whatever. All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue l'Homme Armé. "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or Jondrette the father:-- out at full length, and exclaimed:-- as much as possible. war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand receive me either." child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins Only grant me one favor." The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am for him was to die. the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The 25, 1823. The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I "You wished to be Madame. You are so." and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a One evening he had a singular apparition. under their coverlet. He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His crocodile will furnish some idea: fault has passed." extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at remained deserted. It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones it was a beginning of anxiety. prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- "I think not." a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a the Seine. themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. surprise. paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. was to go on eating the government's bread! The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate might gaze into the eye of a tiger. them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it "It must be closed again." Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly It was simple and withering. "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied at the foot of the thicket. indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the The four young women looked at each other. certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending