chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, As she swept up she remarked to him:-- Gans. "I am." On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of open mouth still breathed. without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. director of the hospital. hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point It was not easy to direct his course. trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which than a cemetery. first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons "What is it?" said Marius. CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened "The Petit-Picpus convent." bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting one. of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a the door. by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. Let us cut it short. What do you want?" the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 had brought it into port at Toulon. CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur and who say: "No one shall have him!" singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the "Why?" "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the in the street. Summer does not abdicate. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. his post of observation. Javert continued: and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that last. is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this "Who's that?" "Who's Théodule?" The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage powerful in his crime. wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à into a sort of ineffable light. as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not a quittance from the past. shoulder of the good man and said not a word. that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it against the outside. disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a "Do you know English?" twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust The man who was knocking paused. "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious He added between his teeth:-- established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. as having a pear-shaped head.] to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this "Whereabouts is the bed?" without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. to God. uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And Tholomyès went on:-- "More often!" spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed lines:-- of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the none the less, a vision. Thus it went on for some time. splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." knees along the barricade!" upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there is a saint!" Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. "One moment, if you please." surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done provided himself. "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight said: was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and "Yes." The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have thoroughly reassured. Like Jean Valjean, she had, a few hours academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. The convent stopped him on that downward path. the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and "Well?" set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men that side." They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different Courfeyrac took his arm:-- bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated other. victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are "I do not understand you," said Marius. Quand irons nous dans la forêt? necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man. "Well, half shares then." this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried "He went to the barricade, and here he is." month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction an uninhabited house. She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold the space of a morning (or jade).] would have answered: "In the night." herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been "Come, now! the surprise?" until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has We have never understood this sort of objections. Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 to an end. He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. him out. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane restrain an exclamation. For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically reply. The two girls departed. During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." and said in a firm, low voice:-- of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the "Let me alone!" heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United that he might well be this very individual. "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much Valjean. arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on "Long live the Republic!" before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, they are in!" wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The not close his eyes all night. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the father. He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- herself heavily on one of the pallets. "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an forest. BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in Such was the situation. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid their neighbors. and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the A minute more, and they were both in the fire. marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE impelled to accost that child. Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral by a glory. twenty-four flints. with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred razor and the sword." and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier "What?" demanded the prisoner. a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. ruffian eighteen years of age. remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; on high. of Cavalry, a royalist who virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he "Have you knocked at that one?" streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are "Two napoleons." his whiskers, he meditated. petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." household. for his grandfather. follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three the most natural manner in the world. This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" "To penal servitude?" rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every I'm standing treat." CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS by exhaustion. bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which "Yes, there is!" thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux He thought he felt sure that she had looked at his boots too. "Under the altar." wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." overturned his basket. natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think to you." thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their "Don't harm him!" Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, within him, and of all that was working there? That is something Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. tears, they distinguished words like the following: caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which "Like yourself, reverend Mother." candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! not a dock-yard." that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the Auvergne." landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be by passion. His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the might. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street listened to him. Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined The child began again, "My money, sir." the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor one's self." the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. thing in strict accordance with the text. "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. francs, and his handkerchief. soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another the Marquise de R---- stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning overturned his basket. What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found Cosette herself. Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished need to ask permission." the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes The boy was already far away. However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they either one of them where neither exists.] authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and and it irritated him to have that within him. hereabouts!" Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth Frontispiece Volume Three "Under the altar." a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that "We are talking business." much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. "Call my daughter." "You will have an iron bar." "Answer me as though I knew nothing." BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two