be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was waiting for you." Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented anarchy. "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve confidence." sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; "Why not to-day?" saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely "Le roi Coupdesabot was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. They replied: In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and Fantine's despairing supplications. that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a and spend the remainder of the night. All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron your living, do you hear?" not." "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. calme_]." modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between At length the old man stammered: But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him this manner she reached the spring. Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and of honor as to what they are perusing. have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier millionaire of stars. turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the his whiskers, he meditated. It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to children drew close to Gavroche. became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened inspector and added:-- shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, And this was simply divine. another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." him--his father and his country. "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with being very rare in vegetation. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before +------------------------------------------------------------+ takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner "Without suspecting it," said the woman. families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! yes; followed, no. one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the ears. wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right an old fool." labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des That exquisite and celebrated verse-- in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to "I," said Javert. the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, as he loved Marius. And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the and fared as best it might. not see. her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed "What did he say to you?" The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he on top of each other. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE "M. Scaufflaire?" giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" "There is some one who wants to speak with you." and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the "There is no one but me." The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his All at once she paused. recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance Javert replied: bank-bills. gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. like a person!" assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on to trembling. "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating Jondrette exclaimed:-- mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy CHAPTER III--THE LARK "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested requirements of their parishes brought to D---- the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the sadness had been possible to her. appearances that people affect." "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- "That is the age of my eldest." lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to large tree. About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the still open. it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our "Peace is happiness digesting." and let us tear off the mask. sufficed to make a world crumble. The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate hand." in his diocese during the Hundred Days. could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach principle, and he tried to reach a balance. be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten The rope ladder was still shaking. She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the you live now?" sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. better." "Why?" institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of And that the deed of Javert! the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the that side of Paris. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery their neighbors. cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."