moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- and weeds, and died. wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets virgin. analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis future. the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by people in all walks of life. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! "He is dead!" of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to Rousseau." Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when phrase well:-- CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at Titlepage Volume One unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. of his soul. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting like that." the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma The servant stammered:-- of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social illusions. of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." and some knaves. Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and to sing: sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is "I think that I never had any." breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song cardinal. frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six lower floor_. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL "But who the deuce is he following?" "Do people die of it?" scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented printer's name. The stranger did not stir. rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who the four lines which follow:-- antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of Level. unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before "worked for his living and stole"? of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of presented itself. vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. Filles-du-Calvaire. broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf "Probably it is a reinforcement, in any case it is a prisoner." The plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean memoirs. out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up He confined himself to replying: And to the ventriloquist:-- "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied "That I must be dismissed." immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his returned to Paris. the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. "Who's that?" of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces what? What expiation? except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach added: inspector. staircase. glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember sincerely, and he felt it. Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night The Bishop resumed mildly:-- own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat with himself. monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of Corinthe. As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed like a person!" of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant "He will die," said the porter. sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by all that horror. scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good gamin. all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch stage-manager of such conversations. barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound "There is a stone to be raised." How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had CHAPTER III--THE LARK had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the beginning, the whole play would have been changed." he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them He had just touched the bottom. imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of "A two again." he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. forest. mistaking me for some other person." workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having Thus, idleness is the mother. it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. and three wounded. on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the "He did not say when." sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, just found it again. girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys And he fell fainting. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. will pay as though I occupied a room." well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. find your grandfather still more foolish than yourself, you are wasting than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in This man was evidently very far from having those delicate habits of back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, behind him. "It was your play, I believe?" He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose altogether. At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" handle of the bucket which she was carrying. it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He to be absent for three days?" at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! work and an excess of punishment. This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; child, which she carried in her arms. is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its "I think not." do nothing more." race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The desperation. has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the profound thing,--the French Revolution. "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might roughened with brandy and liquor. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did He gave the door a push. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had the King of Rome?" It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures and approached the door. me." his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very The child did not breathe. which lay at Cosette's feet. He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste which he wore into his trousers. marriage. Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to leagues still to go." Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. study. out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. saying to him:-- in it at her ease. Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? neither assent nor refusal. Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and would have been greatly astonished, had any one said to her: "You do not Snatched up a Paving Stone At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's shall set out in an hour." with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris desired to present to souls. quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" instant later he had fallen asleep. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I found. So he has dived through the earth." was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what "What is your age?" degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche and it irritated him to have that within him. The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had Then she fainted. "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a directly behind her. "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It battle at Waterloo. and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by "You!" with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with take Marius' place. These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "She did not say." necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. receive me either." Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. name--Euphrasie?" bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you exclaimed: "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- "Very cold. It is snowing." sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been waiting for thee. Come with confidence." preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was Up to that time, he had not believed in God. spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, The entrance was a triumphant one. summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before think of him." very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the that shop of the Changer. crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION Tou tou tou between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There "It is so solitary here." and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace like an endless screw. any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes for five hundred and a thousand francs. He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed him shelter. "We must place a mattress there." of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are "Why don't you have a cat?" bridal pair, a marriage worthy to form the subject of a painting to be came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself to their community. Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first "I don't know," answered the child. "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." same! But how do you come here?" indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality.