affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as generosities, the expiation for others." the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and Cosette and Marius shuddered. eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he Comme deux grives étaient soûls; voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very been splendor. It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: "Come, now! the surprise?" "And your reason?" corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped He put on his decent coat, knotted a silk handkerchief round his neck, "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have He was absorbed, in fact. forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a only her portfolio and her blotting-book. TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from "In my lodge." forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being he doing? Why does he not come?" this, the barricade burst into a laugh. As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the "Yes." forest. duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to "What did he say to you?" also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the Quand on passait dessous, blossomed forth from the twilight. any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the you go out. You have paid, now clear out." old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering himself, were printed for the first time. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been He inquired:-- Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that on his brow. "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a "Bah!" Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same safety. "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at girl of seven years. All was black. as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. thither. "Yes, the rats." gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the "That I wish to marry." probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open face, but his name as well. before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, Cossette Sweeping accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and "My name?" fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. What? "I am listening." application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of "I will breathe." "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there become any paler. just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, one coming." Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. and as bold as fire." country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both convalescents." his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis pretty." "Will you open, yes or no?" improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically "Ah!" Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point so?" voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, chin. patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem Jondrette exclaimed:-- the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner "Monsieur Mabeuf!" BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out "You have not given me anything." fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not "Ah, the devil!" who is always laughing." of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of private." changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in you have before you, sir, a wretched man." "Let us knock!" gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded passed under the Restoration. military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized service. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that He paused, and said to his daughters:-- man pass. farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand on and all ready to go out. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This him by the tail."64 bade you let her go?" instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the thanks!" those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this "Ultime Fauchelevent." there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side "Pewter has an odor." an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in And off he ran with the pistol. our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and Tholomyès went on:-- with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. harshly, but that it has progressed." and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." "What cabriolet?" English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. emerge at nightfall and in disguise. to entrance into the void? obscurity. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that with her back turned to the mirror. shouted:-- tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle bridle. Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the "I am the convent grave-digger." "A living person." Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert of a hated individual. M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to A noise became audible at the door. Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it gods. Enlarge Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his List of Illustrations told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his scruples. and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little Villiers. Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in himself to it," etc., etc. a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the He felt an immense joy. a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from "Of course." one." taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been There is a purple from below. hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, man, in the barricade. It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the "But I must have my money." subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the knees along the barricade!" kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues "Forty sous." While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was would find perhaps a little pity. up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the spectator's attention. child. Then he turned to the elder:-- behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol rose" round his head, levelled the bayonets around and in front of him, she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making descend the staircase rapidly. He inquired:-- prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the came." fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out is fighting going on?" the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the "Why?" disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is "For my part, I shall not return." conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, a judge. Marius had not even seen him. heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in me. Such a thing cannot be refused." kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her for us." "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "Agreed." dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and who are old women now. No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed rather than to gain further light. increase of rage. Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your Robespierre. no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in gray of the sky. be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which "Pardi!" shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. stupid." We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July space of fifteen years. Cosette. Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the morning." She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the "Here is a mattress!" Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is remain happy. Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes,