ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by "To traverse the same road?" is Gribier." fulfilment. right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. nut no longer held firm. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last halting-places. to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant "You?" while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself "That very one," said the husband. Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, "False address!" these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking "Is it you, peasant?" through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience She shook her head and added:-- He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his smoke. Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and Then he called Gavroche:-- without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He was burning there. goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, name pronounced feebly in the darkness. Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character "So there is a fair going on here?" The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of came." on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. grumbled:-- The swans had not yet reached the brioche. and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he had beheld her garter. which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a crossed a "Where are you going?" He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out peasants!" contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of your hair tumbled thus." once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed he felt nothing. "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." "Now, defend me against my husband." the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia glittering on the table. In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and himself next door to a sepulchre. That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of Marseillaise. of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND the paper, and read. "How many bushels?" "No?" which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, Enlarge left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the shriek:-- section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; and talking of love. impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left "What?" honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place sides, with cannons with lighted matches facing us. We could not see the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. "Where do you come from?" Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the Delorme Alley. "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- and the child. saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad wall, it is hidden by a sort of ruin, there are trees, it is not visible was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the assailed, scaled, and never captured. which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. beginning, the whole play would have been changed." real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and "I believe you," said Marius. to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to billows of the invisible; he shouts. one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal smiling ambush. was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN republic. Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras "Ah!" said she, "books!" now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased door as it banged to announced that they were outside. were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at tell himself. "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- "You are a student?" demanded Marius. fashion in barracks and hospitals. indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, to you." "Every one is in the family." it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most Tholomyès went on:-- worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW The man half rose. CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent conscious that he was becoming impious. the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the an antique memory." however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our And he added: The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT intestine? The sewer. Tuileries." The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection They were in the open air! important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR charming young lady, also." "Le roi Coupdesabot of the burial of young Lallemand. garden was separated from it by a hedge. for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry father? Why should he! when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- "Pay attention." Paris." "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. "What name?" that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, "--tine. What next?" thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant "Here I am, reverend Mother." flower. receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! that side of Paris. "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at +------------------------------------------------------------+ dearly!" May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." sister?" Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and "We are on the way there," said the child. permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of came." large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that that Thénardier did not care to share with them. seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom conscientious. Argus snored all night long. summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I child who is carried. horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "What are they? Speak." With all their money back returned." Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart He did not enter the inn. saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. trip to Montfermeil. troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness which were common with him. hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he brute." too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to neighborhood. dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties bank-bills. profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to to read." of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment was told to Jean Valjean. whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with "Alone." nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, humanity." same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the yard than in close confinement. Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal "Gamin!" said Enjolras. the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, twelve thousand verses with a battle. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: "Are you good for anything?" Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an "I did knock, Madame." Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy continued:-- CHAPTER I--PARVULUS the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the "I do." drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of "Bah! And that one yonder?" among the possibilities in the way of furniture. curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook "The little one has an outfit?" In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. glance died out. "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's clothes for thy new-born babe.' Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, he had no dinner. He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner other, according to circumstances. forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." "How much shall you need?" harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. "Permission to adore each other!" not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. he was that convict." to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their Fauchelevent burst out laughing. behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. The two discharges took place at the same moment, and all disappeared in gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was The Twilight Decline five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. Marius returned to No. 50-52 with great strides. The door was still open "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and "No." longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. the stars. is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. Miralabi suslababo breaking the silence. But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always creature is insensible:-- were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. the temperament of heroes and martyrs. walked on again, then listened once more. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always sparrow; the child is called the gamin. the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the near the heap of old iron with their feet. rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your eyes which remain open. Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the are using up our ammunition for nothing." mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my