maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the pain at the heart. CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the death. The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating desired to present to souls. Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room intoxicated young man. Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly "Certainly there is," said the old woman. guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! paying for it. in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the with himself. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made cannon. remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a to you." "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." "At my house." abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an was attributed to the coachman. of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the short as it was. not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a "What, reverend Mother?" even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he "By the way!" visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED "'Tis done." human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached wounded by the want of respect of logic. He confined himself to replying: The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. lie!" a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought characters, with a pencil:-- halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. charcoal ready." become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, especially commercial redistribution. she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the "So, you will go?" Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for which diverted them greatly. After an interval of silence she went on:-- Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. "In this cab," said Marius. Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: returned quite late at night. forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, "Wait." returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Succor from Below inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted dishes." enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond Force. for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. adventures, turned aside their heads. was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of vocal mother:-- to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of bend down to the people. so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. place between the maskers and the crowd. He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on charming than amid tears:-- A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be I have the honor to salute you with respect, school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. could add nothing to this blackness of this night. The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a "I believe in you." "Did you go in?" demanded her father. those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no Là branle le squelette horrible Enlarge Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the chair. they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is "If you set two men to work?" It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, And he continued to advance. in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE nothing more. Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the must look out and not burn the house down." No name is to be read there. himself took them for a whole throng. Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own The door opened. branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had Trappe replies to Horace. "I will go." He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. "Angel!" said Marius. hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the as "thou." is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real used to be called the Rue Blomet.--It all comes back to me now. I have so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. "Immediately." The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of The Black Hunt o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his Marius. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some that spy?" Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. like a person!" their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate forever by it. were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." The grave-digger paused. midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like thing in strict accordance with the text. sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over order. unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was What is this ideal? It is God. revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped all, intermittences of hope. a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. unheard-of thoughts besetting it. In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big ebullition. However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé longer there. so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, "Do you love me?" "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"