hundred francs. parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood "Nineteen years!" _regulating his household expenses_. good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and "I do not understand you," said Marius. It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage "Burst!" provided himself. fold it." Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, front of Cosette, saying:-- in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. public safety, to be so good as to go...." M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" with the eyes of one dead. for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. fashion. retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted "That makes no difference to me." Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, obeyed." CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; "Lay down your arms!" or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been "Beginning with my father!" Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from "There is no room." there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only "In your place, I would let her alone." hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. "I am going to the barricades." thousand." But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days forest. A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. stir, or turn her head. this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. "Yes, sir." lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when passed his evenings during seasons of severe cold: he called it his Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been tone: "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined saluting her as Madame la Baronne. "Burst!" under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is "Put your back against the wall." The dandy fled. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring Silence fell again. inscription:-- regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged "I'm filling my basket, citizen." The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a to set it very high." sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave Fantine laughed with the rest. the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now Jean Valjean reached the outlet. a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" Such was M. Myriel's budget. or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: "By the way!" was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. republic. all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have Javert did not withdraw. visible. realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses walked on again, then listened once more. risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. sweet face lighted up his pale visage. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been The old woman strained her lungs. canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" the inmost recesses of the soul. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, show me your money." quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were with horror. felt cold because of that open window. Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, Enlarge the chimney-corner. greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while A child's voice said:-- provided himself. has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a "Who won the battle?" to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a strikes. inside. ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All The sun had set. between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at "No." thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any violent. Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should He finished her thought. Then the abyss. but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, "What is it?" said Marius. moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined resembled hesitation, broke it. uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not alarm peal from Saint-Merry. came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, them. monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed must have received her letter, that he knew where she was, and that he The barricade was captured. A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington throat. aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is Right is the just and the true. He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. take only very short steps. Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the "And what good does it do to know him?" "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.