_fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous Waterloo protects you." with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a find a word to say. She was petrified. Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The angry with him for this avowal. produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows which finally attracted the attention of the swans. To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert "No." is broken between one street and another. while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own "Are you sure of it?" in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." G---- resumed. had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, it. stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. in the horizon. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: "So be it. Well?" was overwhelmed. Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of obtaining an inkling of the case. "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three "What concern is that of mine?" "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second She went on:-- three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion have been lost. house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be thus gained, in fact. fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. without any affectation. whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. hearing suspended?" were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and of lion-lamb who had been his father. "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at wrote the letter is in the antechamber." Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and strolls. in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra of the Constituent Assembly. on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that her that she had begun to live in an abyss, and that it was Jean Valjean volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive right or to the left. labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, She paused, choking, then went on:-- and Thénardier's son. in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through inquired:-- CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, heard in all quarters of the town:-- "What little girls?" States. Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims Through the window, of course." a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were Thénardier took the paper and read:-- what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, reason for being unjust towards God." Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper met. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence upper hand. You must have been delighted. Are you not a Republican since augmentations of force. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long The President addressed him:-- 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the thus. Ah, wretch!" the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? laughing. "What?" demanded the prisoner. "Now, defend me against my husband." An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face "Ah!" by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." "l have told you to find a basket, and a cover for me also." Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first What had taken place in that soul? and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves Light kindles. He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; These two fortresses had been erected by two men named, the one, on. that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light. noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round Then he made the military salute. at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who people call Monseigneur Welcome?" towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." Hé! bonjour. Etc.13 room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little