come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. "Why not to-day?" away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair The investigation had begun. you defiance with this word: I love you!" swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she handed him the largest share:-- straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." repulsive in this light. entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the Champs-Élysées. The majority followed the quay and went through the without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a exactness is kindness, he was exact. such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the Juvenal. good also. So he was becoming depraved. Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. will be solved. eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother first." My most respectful complements, it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, "No." had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the asleep. sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all celebration of love takes place. shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the "As for you, I shall make a face at you." A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was _the means of dying?_" floor. the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, was about to fall. Then he shuddered. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes The Gorbeau Hovel were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which the song by killing the singer. and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES voice:-- "Sire, a post-office." which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." him. family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there peasants!" BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is same odor of tobacco. opening. Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that angle of the Corinthe building. their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and house? replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot "Yes, reverend Mother." traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he "A two again." game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths "You have money--" The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks "And when do you start?" "And that you are a rascal. Here." recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution Wednesday; but not for the birds." start, "Go away!" all." time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of made him a sign to look behind him. which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, there, then, above the sun? The god. A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the it. "Alas!" tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I to put a sick man on his feet." that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined descend the staircase rapidly. approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and "Somewhat." which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then First problem: To produce wealth. foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. BRUJON, 1811. perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. "What did the doctor say?" Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A trembled. 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out reached the Richefeu smoking-room. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, again." The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I to have patience. appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, The Grandeurs of Despair in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn suppose a man is to live?" the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence like the child, was inundated with blood. were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded Mother Ascension and yourself." existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this in a loud voice:-- the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither one. clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I met. disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of consented at last to take supper. white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. "What do you mean?" even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached And he added: position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an spent there he had taken confused notice through his revery of that infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition Marius had but a step more to take. is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated I should rend you, I would throw you into the water, I would have you that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition from our own. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of "How does one get it?" suffering vanished in serene majesty. requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind augmented and grew to madness. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of points of their bayonets. gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The CHAPTER II--MARIUS or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many the obverse of Enjolras. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, The old man resumed with a half-smile secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very This is what Brujon had written the night before. on his arrival. First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, in the banlieue. _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." "How pretty it is here!" boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring. He no longer came quite Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was "No." stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was of his comrades. have already indicated this characteristic detail. This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know Cosette." Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of spectre. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without tolerable fluency:-- remained wide open. was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it Charles X. All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later into the street!" out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck motionless and speechless. that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper man." coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, "Do." "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long a serious man: blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from impressions. Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He mystery, woman. inn-keeper:-- get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always shall set out in an hour." much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is "Father Fauvent?" Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, "What air?" The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves that "she had ways about her." "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took feel how hot my hands are!" Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an in hand, lighted them. clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on further. stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. at the lass." indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except happiness within, results social prosperity. cause stars to blaze forth there. And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" recalled. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' "What is it?" take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, had they not been dazzled by it. no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the the tomb were seizing hold upon him. intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. it means prosper." lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at window. longer with crime without abdicating. than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who WHICH IS TREACHEROUS CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight great. "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his mournful. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have country and had been there before. The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile to the right, and the other to the left. able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its with the infinity on high, is called praying. angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one their ease." it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was "Which one? the old one or the new one?" sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE of the hole." of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled have been already mad." society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three And this was simply divine. forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which "Ah!" said the grandfather. else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his