Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind Tou tou tou pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy "No." "And the bridegroom?" M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will abandoned his glass and hastened up. cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged guilty of the fault of going straight. NAPOLEON IS MADE the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. "Who will prove that to me?" in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. provided he be a god. he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). The certificate of origin was complete. allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of "I do." suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to "What are they? Speak." mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. table was singing hers. feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be man." Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Or they uttered haughty comments. a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock "Fifteen." Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes than Jean Valjean. She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel audible in the corridor. had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt Babet responded From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of "You may keep this paper as your receipt." vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! pair. were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die lily. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the "This is too much!" seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" a quittance from the past. of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' "And that one?" gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, forces which are their two motors: faith and love. affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" francs which he had received? He turned squarely round, put a gag on All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous resolution. read. admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This in case any one should be looking at him from behind. about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ Monsieur l'Abbé!" He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and that Bauduin was killed. beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the long time?' The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop "Here it is," said the soldier. However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as Quite the reverse. "How does one get it?" myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many the halt. At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Fauchelevent went on:-- part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The facilitate this tale. He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The appearance. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This good odor. And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van Madeleine made no reply. "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the should be an imperceptible slipping away. corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four of the Constituent Assembly. sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. may not fall into sin on our account." "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED civilization." that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If seemed to be gazing at the sky. The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which called _Madame la Colonelle_. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under "How much shall you need?" CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or "For the wine." of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before "There is no room." "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the vanished. "But I did not say 'more often.'" Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they "Be easy." "What?" that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the to be absent for three days?" burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has "What?" bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old checker-board." their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard of man, love. goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In grave, firm voice:-- into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses "What shall we have for dinner?" "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's "Yes." in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle skulls of dead men! This was much talked of, so that one of the elegant the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the "Why are they fighting?" Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same them. on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not The sister replied:-- He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." shadow." condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor tolerable fluency:-- Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, that pane for you!" he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, "Like yourself, reverend Mother." hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that the sound proceeded. Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that Courfeyrac took his arm:-- built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father "How is your wife?" of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be jugular vein. train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on pursued: making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what his glance dropped to the four uniforms. as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. become any paler. "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, "Well, am I anybody?" she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw terrible. country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and She resumed:-- returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when subscription." should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; Let him listen to what follows:-- undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. "I will wait for you here." benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase There was no means of opening the gate. compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old something of heaven through holiness. First problem: To produce wealth. old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: "But the commissary of police--" for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it "Cosette!" ears. espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in further. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a evolved from that word. there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who "Really? You knew what I was called?" "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which Surlababi mirlababo brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me and his new coat. CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of "There!" said Guelemer. this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Arras to-morrow." Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young bars. "Through yonder large door." Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every brute." blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered prowling about the neighborhood. have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." down from his brow. And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his paroxysms of joy. It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- The Bishop turned to the man. into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront his family." Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Among other things, this man said:-- sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which glimpse of in 1814. This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind having gone off "to watch events." drinking-shop rooms,--tables, pewter jugs, bottles, drinkers, smokers; Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement houses. Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be Marius stammered: an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. passer-by. Enlarge to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those