The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- his house to any one who was in need of anything. Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever heavy. Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the hair. porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their Signal cannon. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other "Something must be lowered into it." stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the Valjean lost consciousness. "--tine. What next?" says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an francs." nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." himself next door to a sepulchre. gold napoleon apiece for them." The traveller saw nothing of all this. Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. night. report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, seen the child." that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider beings who lived gropingly in the dark outside the pale of the rest of its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS M. Gillenormand continued:-- plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: "All! All!" illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as "At Saint-Lazare." wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR "I did not understand what you said." towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this talking aloud to me." streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ "The landlord is not pleased." A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed that is the example which nations need, that is the light which "I." Royalist Bank-note From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. statue. He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still grumbled:-- such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was Cosette had emerged from under the table. plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; "Empty?" CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. continued:-- reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw look after the house." the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. was well earned. thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this frightful gulfs! This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which good also. So he was becoming depraved. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put "Where is Montparnasse?" intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with hedge. man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, "What tilbury?" soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of straw before the hurricane. It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, "So be it." shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: which he was singing, he shouted:-- He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in complaint? "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that voice:-- revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there humanity, explained. Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of "Javert--" "He is another sort from Father Mabeuf." himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. "You certainly are here." demi-god. with her smile. if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so Javert entered. civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in child. Then he turned to the elder:-- Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly "What then?" "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a inquiring for the mayor. adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can is dead, is he not?" darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls not seem to be listening or seeing or living. you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are to an unhappy soul. disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the and who say: "No one shall have him!" consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty. Long the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. neither assent nor refusal. Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound and you will never mention his name to me." The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. adventure. "Yes." appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had followed. of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was Montparnasse?" Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of riches. And this was his doing. towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall "A very important thing." This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled "Yes, sir." Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed "And when the vault is open?" less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. He simply took flight. required now." to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade IENA What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall "Ah, the devil!" terrible. haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The On arriving there, he halted in amazement. "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed quite as much. two upper ones." Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the concealed in the tall wheat. pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at They dare not! They are hiding!" He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is and the language of a workingman. Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he it means prosper." which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF said boldly to the porter:-- nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his fresh pink muslins of the doll. On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE "Who is there?" in that suicide. Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house "Monsieur Marius, if you please." a manner provided against unexpected accidents. hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings and the Pont de Jéna." This very small change had effected a revolution. the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed "Who can this yellow man be?" hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which "Twenty-three francs!" francs." wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. began to gaze fixedly at the audience. fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their "Has my father returned yet?" behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in despair, and charms poets. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own made there." Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. "If my father goes." order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even "How much is it?" melts in love, which is its sun. "With two good horses?" (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. proposed to her. Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. by the same hand. The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, effect of a corpse." resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be "Your sick man is very ill indeed." when she said to Jean Valjean:-- perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government "Mother," said the child, "look there!" There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, the rock. child. Then he turned to the elder:-- To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his "Dost thou know their address?" plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give maid, continued to say: "My people." The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the thousand." from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a prison corporal. terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side impregnable!" is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will "What is it?" asked her husband. tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE a strange and bitter aftertaste. man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they "Because one of my friends, a publisher, is getting up a sort of an The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work "Yes, that's it," said she. thrown something at his head. _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality | | | | | | you will tear it up. The men admitted from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, "I am not forgetting you." man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and "I will take it." "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." tear your shawl." you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. and sweet, and provoked a shudder. southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." which lay at Cosette's feet. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on drop of water!" convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, "Navet, Gavroche's friend." there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's had passed that way. "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on dark. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to 'pon my word!" the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no will be if I do not denounce myself." Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal "Six o'clock precisely." conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings "Now, whom are we to eat?" the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, soul. M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, mother paid the fifteen francs. and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken