invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the think to tell you to pick it up. The sun was shining bright, and it was The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for "A very important thing." netting, "what's that for?" in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the Champs-Élysées. The majority followed the quay and went through the ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with class-room through which he was passing. responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded but could not. you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost "Well, since there is no other means." a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer the half-open door, visible only to his wife. One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on Gavroche. to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the "Here is a mattress!" the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these human problem. suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of and soul like a north wind. the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the something else, too, perchance, he meditated. The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS "Thanks," he said feebly. came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder The coachman turned to the inside travellers. opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the Titlepage Volume Five having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the larger with the proud light within them. disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- and luminous fact. resounded through the barricade. Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Enlarge replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" "Listen, Théodule." "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. chariot drawn by marine monsters. vivacious spirits say:-- enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a required now." Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his deprive a man. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are extending it towards Marius: a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse "By whom?" small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The was not furnished; there was not even a chair. "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by some oats. distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an the three persons seated at the table. beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. "Something must be lowered into it." impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do was flesh above and marble below. together. people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl with that doll?" sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "He no longer expects you," said the woman. All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about "M. Scaufflaire?" produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a listen. The woman nodded affirmatively. military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, "Ah! Babet." exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect do not give me a thousand crowns." mother, but I have claws like a woman." He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Petit-Banquier. A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off says: "Phew!" At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- into the street. Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, Zi zi zi by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest had passed that way. He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with a return of a river on its course. It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised said: "Old women are never lacking." of Paris." the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. possibilities. Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the either intentionally or accidentally. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not "Father!" said Cosette. reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. The Grandeurs of Despair of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a which were common with him. her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I seemed very pretty indeed to him. "Father!" said she. Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four The entrance was a triumphant one. Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark A momentary pause ensued. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. bite, he exclaimed:-- was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is M. Gillenormand's rage. this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew tilbury that I own." The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a for you!" Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; hands and rolled noisily on the floor. But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain at half-past four o'clock." tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Gavroche's lodging. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is "In the first place, it's not in that direction." secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against followed. same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. meagre income which had survived no one knew how. CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. francs in gold, in a sealed box. CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE "Ah!" sentence, and you cannot take an oath." the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a Gans. men. grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, rest. there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly held by a glance. only in the wine-shops, but in the street. BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED And, with a poignant accent, he added: this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements the young tree which is sawed off at the root? there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny Enlarge she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she arrive will have the best places." a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his on the spot." most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which grumbled:-- were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, of the patrol of the right bank. of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." "Have you a place?" Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the "I'm going to put these infants to bed." their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant "OUR BELOVED:-- Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries It was the doctor entering. fault has passed." All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes insurgents. And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, Corinthe. "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, the watch. prioress expects you." Which of the two will be the first to fall? am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything Here is the note:-- "We haven't the time." It was Cosette sobbing. so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want they are." true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to Filles-du-Calvaire. furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" only in the lower court. mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste "What cabriolet?" enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In not even himself, had taken any notice:-- kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. brazier. was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under "Nearly seven good leagues." that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an The One who is in the shadows. gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the far as he was concerned. A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. spot. the other. succession, and shaking them cautiously. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten "Of what?" said Marius. allow the persons who should be at work to think. of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards towers of Notre Dame. The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop "You bother me," said Éponine. fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing the temperament of heroes and martyrs. He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time "His name is Jean Valjean." of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was and Thénardier's son. A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was lines even at the present day. prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this had a round hat. Fauchelevent replied:-- possibility of any other itinerary. silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. rend your heart." "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a "Don't approach!" she cried. it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was and set the candlesticks on the table. when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city don't have a finger in the pie." When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things exclusively to her care. all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, first. And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature