It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed furniture, and people. Her big face, dotted with red blotches, those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. roughened with brandy and liquor. On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, "Eat away." stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. mind. 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the garden and we are done for." that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, smoke. At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; And that the deed of Javert! had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched strewn with corpses. nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." and exclaimed:-- The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the strolling in the fields. which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into "I am dying," said she. without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had in becoming an honest man." and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a understanding of his position. it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and now." shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with first step in a staircase leading back to life. with a pike. been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a Flaccus. very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of him. stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets gray of the sky. "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are "Yes, I do." her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the the hospital. venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to poltroon!" At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; 7." In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the We will be explicit. at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- with red calico. him:-- have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. Jean Valjean gently. her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this "Where are you going, you rogue?" voice:-- "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would "Was I speaking to you?" understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with "Have you clothes?" French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." him by the tail."64 "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four more." the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly back? 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." respectable old man. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After The youngest, one. At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well Marius had reached the Halles. Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the Fantine's despairing supplications. his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that alluding to the landing at Cannes. "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare the next morning. The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see one could understand one's position in the city; above the "When does the porter open that door?" confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- À la chasse aux corbeaux, and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, She began to laugh. with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin And turning to Jean Valjean:-- of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held Gavroche replied:-- words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.28 which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging hand to a police spy." this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they them?" Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. "I cannot." full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. him have only a wooden spike." Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The "M. Scaufflaire?" and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that attributed the divers little works published during the last century, side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, "Yes." surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, loudly:-- directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give All wheeled round. It was Javert. Fantine. suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall "Monsieur?" to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a barricade lay. folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some bridle. in advance? I have money, I tell you." designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that prison. M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, "I do." another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." years between them, but they already represented the whole society of the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, could conceal after what they said. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, street. Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined found one's self face to face with a wall. be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy two brats rendered some shock necessary. docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed "Yes." Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, "There is some one who wants to speak with you." imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the the birds are exhausted. moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's Orleans. He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek