will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to "Why do you say _you_ to me?" heard, through his love fever, near the same grand basin, counselling that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the Marius replied with embarrassment:-- resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, "Well, am I anybody?" The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot CHAPTER X--DAWN France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although of Cosette in her ecstasy. the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of descent of the sewer. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" "That I must be dismissed." Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror Then he began to stare into the air again. "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. was changing its aspect every moment. 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] the man who has never lied. She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The And she sank down as though on the point of death. him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment God." high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, A man entered. Javert entered. took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed "Dost thou know?--" The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of cannon battering the barricade. absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to Cosette made no reply. 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I "I promise." austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the not die of a pierced hand." days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with being very rare in vegetation. half-farthings." he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and He burst forth: like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, have been cut for some time. arms and said:-- should not hear his breathing. Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian "Very well, speak." He cried to Cosette:-- Jean Valjean stammered: very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not he could read it. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to doing of the King. The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. crossed a "Where are you going?" reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more "What is your name?" deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. his chair. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? begins to behold the stars of the tomb? The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. river. in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. met. "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the "Hey?" being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders. Ney drew his himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. the door. "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted Something was required in the foreground. Love came. All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. and three wounded. attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they rend your heart." Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would that. Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like had turned carter. vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress that yawning pocket. and nibbling small cakes at the English pastry-cook's shop. Only a few twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his legally, death puts an end to pursuit. borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged "They are mice." causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became fault. of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled only her portfolio and her blotting-book. "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, have done well." made like that just at present.'" "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie "Why are they turned out?" he asked. Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." reader's mind. M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- "Yes, sir," said the elder. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible "Oh! how glad you are!" The child's voice responded:-- How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more "State them." to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses "What time is it?" years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which speedily. most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, "When the vault is open--" those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more night. who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; noise, which was sweet yet sad. He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of from the rain and from all eyes:-- hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the movement remains its law, nevertheless. in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a and watched their play with a melancholy air. In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these He replied:-- of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in "I don't know," replied Cosette. his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to Sometimes even several of them at a time. "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her INDIA Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, the following:-- "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that Montparnasse winked. something grand has been done. CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. "Cosette, shall you go?" time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven sooner have committed. "The deuce!" volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays "What card?" ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden the evening. a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, only five thousand francs. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "My colleague," said the man. "But the commissary of police--" prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now may be kindness in the broom. it. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the The door opened. stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should There, at home, what do they do? Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun nut no longer held firm. "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean the mendicant on the highway:-- that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a worse for it. "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had this is what died away in the gloom:-- Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent as having a pear-shaped head.] emit a ray of light. to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the mind. as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of his blue ribbon!" Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, was there that that thief had been Champmathieu? One thing only. His "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on "In the elephant!" "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very Champs-Élysées. Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. smile at the heart of a rose: do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the "That Argenteuil wine." upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained humanity, explained. identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that not to flinch again. when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story ships of the line. "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted "Where are we going?" That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with "Yes, sir." him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest Right is the just and the true. Thénardier took the paper and read:-- chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and grandfather will be! You shall have your plot in the garden, you shall reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good come to that. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades the ruffians in turn:-- this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." movement, and said: The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as "Give us back our father from Ghent, A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else "Hitched to a cabriolet?" In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no convent through humility. of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. "You have saved my life. Who are you?" my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman The door opened. All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone crouching down like a terrified dog. its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, Pour Meudon. l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, before." Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the about the chief justice. opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier She shook her head and added:-- The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Jean Valjean went on:-- man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say explain it. marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are the wall, talking together in subdued tones. then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert _Got rid of_ is the word. There was but a mere fragment of nature in is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck movement, and said: "I? I work." will go." his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE