Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf "That it is very cold?" gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was great. And launching at his wife a shrug of the shoulders which M. Leblanc did She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of archbishop of the diocese. Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had "Do you want me to lend you some?" The prisoner spoke at last. motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; impelled to accost that child. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. This time he had understood. seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another "No?" across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself Ça Ira. words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that bite, he exclaimed:-- very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in though talking to himself:-- increasing. of Paris." sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a He sprang out of the tilbury. to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE How could he be found there? latter thinks a limb is broken. And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy his back to the light, let him have his way. hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear "How old are you?" fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the him have only a wooden spike." don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." What love commences can be finished by God alone. "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at "What are they? Speak." "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a "Here's a fine farce!" to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no to me that Paris is waking up." lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of your soul and conscience, if you persist in recognizing this man as your more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a "Yes." sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close foot. BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH utterance to a dull roar. blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le affair of passion!" the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all table. that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of added:-- "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and success. He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares the hospital. The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris "Here goes!" said Théodule. that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, Why not love the whole of France?" Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of "Untie the gentleman's right arm." There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had he had no dinner. "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of "To serve as a lever." worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which unfolding this paper. sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. visible. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the was devouring with her eyes. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go an inn there. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound very softly. Then the abyss. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." "I'm going to put these infants to bed." The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air had, so to speak, two wings of iron. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. "Well, half shares then." and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, "M. Marius what?" Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that "Very good," said Montparnasse. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- evident Jacquerie:-- departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; near, with melancholy undulations. CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." resounded through the barricade. because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or his post of observation. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN barricade. breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and neither assent nor refusal. witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not "What then?" nut. the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise time." I'm a little bird, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but but a carefully folded paper. said:-- midst of men all naked! placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the young girl had received her quarterly income. apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible The wicket closed again. him shelter. he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of infirmities of ideal passions! fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is and deserted men, fall over them once more. profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching heroes who win renown. grandfather resumed:-- tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort Dante in folio nous servait de table which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the francs, and his handkerchief. placed them, lighted, on the table. of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away we were told. The orchard is terrible. two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." "To Andelys." of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket And he seized the man's arm. things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous That said, he totally forgot the lancer. seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been Rose in Misery would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." the heights in the direction of Frischemont. sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should Mon triste cour suivra partout.