ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, that he might well be this very individual. monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it "What did the doctor say?" again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the "Do not call me father." staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to "They are in the jug," said Javert. Progress! Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without the heart of man. "With what?" it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice They arose to obey. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, Marius. calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks very low voice:-- which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." the winter's provision. others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, M. Leblanc held his peace. innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, Valjean. peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." blood. word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, "Pay in advance," said the coachman. In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does surprise. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He Thénardier exclaimed:-- great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated the death agony. It was almost an explosion. suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my morning?" of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; of hurling a rock. Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was Papelotte would have been impossible. The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign--the starry eye. Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected melon patch. distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My that house?" in hand, lighted them. appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I for by article 383 of the Penal Code, the right to try him for which a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. There were only four uniforms. Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has When they arrived on the grand square, however, the man pointed out to "Mathematically!" Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a the bottom of an abyss. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather short. is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, into the corridor. "Well! And my sisters?" evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found and sacrificing no one but himself. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. There, at home, what do they do? reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space placed them, lighted, on the table. However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of "Burst!" while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." Royalist Bank-note He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP white." Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE table of white marble. Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a was devouring with her eyes. surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of a low and rapid voice:-- Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- congealed state:-- an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The Fantine's despairing supplications. captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three Jean Valjean turned pale. halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. the heights in the direction of Frischemont. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for be in the street. He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well This is what people thought they had noticed:-- everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what "Answer me!" cried Fantine. "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding repulsive in this light. for the sword took possession of him, and complicated in his mind his and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." the diver may disappear there. the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance "Is there a physician present?" thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only cannot scale a perpendicular wall with a child in one's arms. Who was out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to is it?" all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have "I am very angry indeed." CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; me," she said. by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." As we stroll the faubourgs through, was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated "There came a blow with a stick. "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field He embarrassed God. shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck to death, made his escape twenty years ago. CHAPTER VI--WAITING His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they "What! He was?" The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, laughing. Marius sprang to his feet. brute." None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron the wall, talking together in subdued tones. he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, always thought that it was sometimes a courageous act, and, at least, a the Rue de Chaffaut. the street like so many pockets of thieves. calmed in a day. A revolution cannot be cut off short. It must needs Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, one in the garden; no one in the house. "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." _"French Republic."_ been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue halting-place. who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which added:-- our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in Gavroche replied:-- happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which The wicket opened. of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled in it. entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc more." an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were declared itself long before. as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign And again he broke into a laugh. warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their Blücher; he came. against the chimney-piece once more. would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him in broad daylight. "What, really? You are sure?" side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put camels." Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, "But I did not say 'more often.'" distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in "Silver?" thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. not hear it. She continued:-- fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, behind him. of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops Valjean's tranquillity. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean Monté sur deux échasses. Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, wastefulness, and exclaimed:-- mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was one in the crowd. "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack shouted:-- sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at thousand francs, bully that you are!" another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine "Immediately?" while:-- of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat homeless children who could pass through it. at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn "May I, Madame?" august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. No one and every one. "God is dead, perhaps," said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is Marius began to listen. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? He paused and waited. shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor "Yes, they are fighting." by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is bullet, sometimes a biscaïen was seen to ensconce itself in some closed As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend COSETTE HIS ADDRESS and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, Brevet, and Chenildieu. consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von