CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. first. "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable always turn on their peg. he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers She was dead. "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. the flowers." The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of Here the rag-picker interposed:-- shouted:-- lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the "Marius Pontmercy." touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? "No." "And you?" "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. him and said:-- Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer will be here to-morrow." looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he not be overheard." "I don't know." sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I "A two again." was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that sorrow and emerge from it again. than Rothschild." "Have you knocked at that one?" Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt "That was what I said to myself." "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far bronze. He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures not a dock-yard." Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up On his return, he dined. The dinner resembled his breakfast. one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the The doctor dismissed her. ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it growl. watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." of the pier of the door. is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some "What is this?" said the traveller. had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly thing in strict accordance with the text. by Haydn. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and The wall held firm. The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. "Can I see her?" The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman combat. guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his "Ah!" said the man. so long as he has money?" myself." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! you two." Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. M. Leblanc made his appearance. to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is "My fortune is made." impossible to say what element of repentance had rendered this retreat "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, Kruideniers, called Bizarro. thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force Marius had paid for two. he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off everybody is canaille!" those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom It was not true; Cosette lied. and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly "Yes, you." As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any "Then I understand the girl is rich?" "Where is the Argenteuil?" This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were of the patrol of the right bank. sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute "Very well, then!" "What?" "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light I have the honor to salute you with respect, She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses "One named Little Gervais?" to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is garden was separated from it by a hedge. firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen end in the monosyllable, No. wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had happened to me." at heart. cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to man's voice. "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.