this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. the first man is desirous of shirking. two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, "Let us contemplate the tiger." nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us fist,--such was the attack. "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and infested with bandits. be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like "Is that all!" The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the large tree. police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and that he uttered:-- North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, beginning, the angel at the end. upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- "Let me sleep here,--until I die." fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frévent, and the soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! "Come along with me, young 'uns!" passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The blanket, and the little one murmured:-- the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as find a word to say. She was petrified. To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the the human form. Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with "How much will you give me for it?" said she. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, together they buried the empty coffin. brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the traveller. boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a "What is it?" the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once "Somewhat." of having been grandson of Louis XV." "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the answer from Jondrette. which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and "Show the man in," said Marius. At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon "Ah, the devil!" spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our A third peal created a diversion. Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old morning." were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? The Comfortor might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to of Vienna. For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, He replied in a low voice:-- something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As id="linknoteref-31">31 errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that angle of the Corinthe building. The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground larger amount of sadness. The barricade applauded. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which Marius bitterly:-- person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he "I will pay on my return." frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards MUNICIPAL POLICE old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his "A thief." in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER planets fill the infinite universe. were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble order to live, I will not steal a name." "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, "Make haste to bring Cosette." is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart "What is it?" Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! "Adieu, Madame." In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the "Come in," he said feebly. Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen "Yes, sir," said the elder. that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had of the Constituent Assembly. At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- cobbler!" things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict Jean Valjean began to laugh. mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, Javert turned his back. risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the "Pewter has an odor." "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" "What?" demanded the prisoner. convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. "Yes, and a hand stopping it." magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the prison parlance. A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, "Yes." liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? night: sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion Through the window, of course." roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him having Marius spied upon by Théodule; now she plotted to have Théodule redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped off. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES "That is easy enough to say." curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there Javert replied:-- At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just "Go and get the child," said he. of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. Surlababi mirlababo contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he that is to say, terrible. of joy." the wounds themselves. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like revery. and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, back into the cemetery. the great cavern of evil. rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or morning on the ground floor. In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was a bell. He rang. August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, there is your shadow with the round hat." to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an "Here is something for your trouble." sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he "I'm hired." "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few Marius went his way. declining. great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a "I tell you to speak loud." "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is where I would have planted my foot on you." faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of absence. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he amounts to nothing. The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. "What act?" Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of district. docket. A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his would be our salvation," he murmured. "You may retire, gentlemen." a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which The man opened his eyes in astonishment. "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young mother paid the fifteen francs. deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. pavement. subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts passed under the Restoration. This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged younger in the arms of the other. A handkerchief, cleverly knotted about The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated Quite the reverse. The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that old blackguard, you child-stealer!" hands; she could hardly lift the pail. police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres "What time is it?" just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented "Yes." with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of And he set out on the march once more. other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that white. stood near him:-- wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered tolerable fluency:-- she was trembling. cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in bows, and demanded in a curt tone: of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor "No, sir." his glance dropped to the four uniforms. is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. Gavroche immediately began to take observations. little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, Fauchelevent to Gavroche. Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a sky." the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard And the two children followed him as they would have followed an verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself though talking to himself:-- "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to set out across the thickets. tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, He laid four louis on the table. slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and felt cold because of that open window. occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and "The coffin of the administration." great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked the room. had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the pane all for nothing." Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. save. lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. "More than you have, perhaps." This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round houses. love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. what I am about to dictate to you." Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one Thus three results ensued from one idea. myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to wooden shoes. a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two And he turned to Jean Valjean: Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by to unveil them suddenly at the last. he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a Jean Valjean resumed: said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; "Yes, there is!" was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the As for the man, he was the same as usual. It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. Marius' timid and reserved nature. it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his be composed of future and be sympathetic. vague and sleepy smile. Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a