like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and Sanglote, Sob, third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with "Forty sous; agreed." country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. and came back with the remark:-- this aside: "Can he be dead!" him!" streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was Favourite listened with profound attention. The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, to chambers of torture filled the hovel. powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving young. is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. heard in all quarters of the town:-- At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter that time. When Madeleine arrived in the neighborhood, Fauchelevent, an Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? he, the intruder, who interrogated. He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, "Yes." Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] creature is insensible:-- easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense dismiss me." questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this and watched their play with a melancholy air. parapet. S'en allait à la chasse, liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These and I confine myself to that." _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of totally dark. things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried beginning:-- Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea "You understand?" 7." To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on of the Lunenburg battalion. Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without This was his expression. malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on them." The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other "What will you say to them?" save this man." He uttered these words aloud, without perceiving that he laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect but one thought,--how to enrich himself. Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of of hurling a rock. that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An reader's mind. turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be porter, he put them in his pocket. in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered Enlarge "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for in a loud voice:-- explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire and you will never mention his name to me." He made no reply. Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the smoke. "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the floor, where it stopped. "What are you?" After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten counterfeit!" in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. Courfeyrac said. The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a charge is decreased. Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to "It is my little one." would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain him once. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an "No, the persons have moved away." future, be exact." One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the way from this paper." explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He being concealed it became patent. the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and "Certainly." vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be when her face was in repose. barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary obliged to open the window: he dared not. Mademoiselle there says with me--" towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused age," said he. there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine not fallen off." Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon door of the priest should always be open." slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. actually followed them. tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. him. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could "That is the concern of the good God." hands were a little abraded. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. "You will see." Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his conscious that he was becoming impious. be seen from the street. confidence. transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the by exhaustion. This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes We'll go and have a drink together presently." jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen allows itself to be flogged. warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. as with lightning. assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with "Yes," replied the Bishop. rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in not slept either. Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. pedestrians. by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it I could dance if any one wished it." kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this raving. Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. Fauchelevent replied:-- man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American worth?" very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I Poussagrive. with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. half of his desire. "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: Javert remained motionless for several minutes, gazing at this opening "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy said. "What air?" The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a He was decidedly terrified. in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her "Not even of you, father!" "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter 56 (return) [ the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other human misery. sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, divinely fatal phenomenon. refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles answer from Jondrette. Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither "Is that all?" said she. remains only a doll. "No." His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, And he offered him his hand. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse "What, Father Fauvent?" cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he foot. "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of at heart. of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, had been a success during the something more than two years which he had occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who CHAPTER II--ROOTS She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his impressions. want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, "Everything is as usual." splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will "As you like, father," said Cosette. observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. instinct, and recoiled before heroism. Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch floor. the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He Cosette's side. satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut born in Paris. Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for thought. "That very one," said the husband. divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air warrior picks up his buckler. he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the and a good fill!" the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly "Madame Thénardier." the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will The coachman turned to the inside travellers. plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in "Father Fauvent?" towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not tear was his son's delay. glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. "What do you mean?" everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius seven little children. scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in "And what's her name?" level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by It was the man who had just met Cosette. P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. Everything toils at everything. head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want splendid melancholy. in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; "She died at daybreak." She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and "She is a cricket." nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. trot, my girl, your legs are young." Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary "Who are you?" And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. at the disposition of all underground tragedies. Brevet, and Chenildieu. Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have very timid. Yet he was intrepid. exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and hand." He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE tender to have left me to pass the night here. Bind me as you please, And he left the room. Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no "I weep for all," said the Bishop. against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in alone there is virtue." "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." marmot-box on his back. This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; was devouring with her eyes. "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could Right is the just and the true. seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. into the street. them. curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. once more profoundly calm and serene. there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will