though it did not hurt him. of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall when her face was in repose. frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered even saw the sun. think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and lost. insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence that side." now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. dressed in men's clothes. Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical "At my house," replied the old woman. was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat "And the bridegroom?" dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the "The address that you asked me to get!" and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between arrival, in terrified somnolence. accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on "But--" science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole Phrygian cap. ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a to Labarre?" the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it in the cathedral. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the make Cosette keep silent. gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would his coat. The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would very cold." no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that wind is still there." plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this thief because he is known to be a convict." The waiter replied:-- tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are into the street. Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near There was nothing in this wooden shoe. francs." "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." had become terrible. of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to abstained from touching that money. "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right The same silence. herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. LES MISÉRABLES before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath He awoke, stammering:-- left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. Gavroche. after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed divinely fatal phenomenon. Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, dearly!" you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish shudder:-- horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, "How many bushels?" Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, What verses? These:-- "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. Enjolras:-- of jaws yawned on the barricade. are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment place. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every war. He would have Cosette or die. was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." The investigation had begun. Enjolras:-- and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I place. living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of and talking of love. Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, conversation:-- Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the spectator's attention. as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable "Why?" he had been appointed Bishop of D---- Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in After a pause he went on:-- "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad the old man a jar of milk. Barrière du Maine." Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would was sleeping too much. serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the "I thank you," said the Bishop. "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit feet, without a movement. great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior this. rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of "Where will you obtain it?" glimpse of in 1814. extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- "And it will not cut?" seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" who was a thinker. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. whose place Fauchelevent had taken. bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." "Come, now! the surprise?" They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. The letter was signed "Thénard." Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES Javert had not uttered a single cry. shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he "Here is what I have." 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. Jean Valjean was not dead. At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and First problem: To produce wealth. a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating suppose a man is to live?" whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The loves what is great. charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, "I consent to that." As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all spectacle, with a confusion of cherubim and Cupids over the heads of the twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her He took breath, smiled and resumed: Duclos. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! own breast. soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, attacked, spectres resisted. 7." he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur "Why all?" said Enjolras. blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and great. Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the "My colleague," said the man. France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart which are, to-day, probably effaced: of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very in which she was still pretty. On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to post." of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes "Father!" street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a "And this is the way I save his life!" here to this sketch. and which was calling to him through the trees:-- him. everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the which we have within us." prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, Jean Valjean continued to smile. When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and and approached the door. employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted ivory-handled knife which I use at table. Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious have I done?" "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse "That is well." Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and with a lively curiosity. real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. were still thirty-seven of them. "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. Tenth; all is going well!" to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported "It must be, said a warrior." "It is the Saturnalia." Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through which had not been apparent previously. and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the infirmities of ideal passions! "Are you alone there?" contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that knocking the house down." and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" And Jean Valjean thought to himself:-- short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. yes; followed, no. "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she about the country-side, and caused great consternation. anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. he adored. sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having pair. ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in especially commercial redistribution. love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; This chaste, almost shy love was not devoid of gallantry, by any means. by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and "I know it." He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have his back to the light, let him have his way. twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that At this moment, this being had the air of a child. ill? Do you suffer?" He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the "Get up." "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution Cosette's head. Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience single chair of any sort. name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred shouted:-- remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at "A corpse? I have none." had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- it was formidable for that epoch. glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous "I do." educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of do you insult me?" to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any "Who goes there?" said the master. Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider Why? like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on children." of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, elucidate or interrogate. CHAPTER IV ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the glow of those salamanders of the fray. M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, emerge at nightfall and in disguise. possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. Cosette. battle-field. pavement of the street. There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy more." cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The "On your knees!" he repeated. had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. "Hey?" hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and