officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way hovel!" in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out "Yes, sir." such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was than a cemetery. had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, stand in need of us?" girl of seven years. All was black. The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. bite, he exclaimed:-- Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she another world:-- detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a "What, daddy?" France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. precisely the idea of which I was in search." Break a pane of glass!" can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." much the worse for that head." market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "No." in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is amid the shadows! in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. chamber without saying a word. account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of This is the problem which presented itself to him: war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not to M. Leblanc. commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In During those hours of waiting, what did they do? factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the converted into evil. was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, to the ladies for an hour." preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and And again she said to him:-- very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being come from us." is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of The man turned round. the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though Javert continued:-- aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, "Why?" devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. "And can you get a lever?" "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. "Twenty-three francs?" tone: heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." may be kindness in the broom. create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. third, he cried, "Famous!" glanced around the room in a sort of terror. "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- a warning." the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether coldly:-- of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had rapid but very low tone:-- seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. sight. A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, took place. blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy balance of light and darkness. gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto addressed to him by an old woman of the people, who called to him from intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously The inspector muttered:-- 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration. him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the himself. the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its And rapidly approaching his wife:-- battle. policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, from our own. skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and remained classic:-- she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well Enlarge limped a little:-- It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of CHAPTER X--DAWN vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the post of a drinking-shop. "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in "No." There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn _regulating his household expenses_. in hand, lighted them. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. "Certainly." "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. "Quick," said he. wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The throughout the immense mystery of stars. sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who with a smile. of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they "Father!" said she. which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. "Ah, the devil!" beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and "Then it attacks children?" One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, M. Leblanc uttered not a word. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- "Promise what I tell you!" incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed increase in courage. I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create "Like other people." A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to "Yes." teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred has taken a resolution. Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for "Here?" inquired a voice. not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we more simple. A glance is a spark. back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." Jean Valjean approached. for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman He inquired of this usher:-- said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his "Pierced?" was crouching over Marius. cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his times, by the deep breaths of eternity. grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the happiness. Ça Ira. around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external Marius:-- Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is thousand crowns." they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance remain?" between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. "There's going to be a row!" monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a Jean Valjean stammered: Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER "Unless it's the old fellow." fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. "The grave-digger." "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten "No. I knew it before." to him. The barricade was free. hands a terrible cap which he had. Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of outburst of inward laughter. he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and facing them in front. devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her "He did not answer my question." a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting get you again!" loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other The eldest girl grumbled:-- _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and "And he is coming?" hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was people who smell bad." who still recall the most minute details. the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each and weeds, and died. "What did you come here for?" view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable Here is their dialogue: forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a very softly. not seem to be listening or seeing or living. it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; The man replied:-- example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats twelve. CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the VOLUME III--MARIUS. instant later he had fallen asleep. in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. The man replied:-- "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war glance died out. nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. thousand francs, bully that you are!" Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had towards him. guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond "What's your name, portress?" It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of an antique memory." one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying may be kindness in the broom. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant The first problem contains the question of work. CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, A kiss, and that was all. They arose to obey. In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. tranquil." shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a was tempting, and Courfeyrac could not resist. He crumpled the poor nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for However, Jean Valjean was happy. house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been caught sight of his man. deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had in lieu of the ---- above.} It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS different groups. A shout went up:-- CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police "This is my place, sir." grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and anything more than an immense dare-devil? certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When "Yes." costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing,