Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! have just given you fifteen hundred francs." ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was her veil lowered, stood beside her. fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the hovel!" window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. in horror. there were many ascents. almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with Gavroche recognized him. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A Homère-Hogu, a negro. them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no "P'pa," cried a voice, "he is not in here." The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, "There's no one here." "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light the diver may disappear there. the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts AUSTERLITS left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in we were told. The orchard is terrible. him. The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should Little Gavroche Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted with the night. terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the And he added:-- "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by had exchanged rôles. judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face are a good fellow, don't enter." paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. exclaimed, "What frights they are!" Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. outlet. all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if "The French Revolution!" pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly he should arrive after all was over. CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE become real things! Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there cannon. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was going?" ear:-- The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up Curé." side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How end in the monosyllable, No. With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls precedes the death agony. Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far arrive, in less than a quarter of an hour, at some mouth on the Seine moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not takes off his hat. virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. "I entreat you," said Marius. would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of "Well, half shares then." tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, "Take aim!" pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having To tell the truth, neither of them slept. Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored of a return to reason. has entered here. Who are you, sir?" and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, Either by chance, or because he had begun to feel a dawning uneasiness, vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find "I shall die three hours hence." facing them in front. beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do The father went on: need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had on the grass. indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, later he added:-- absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to Why not love the whole of France?" the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, "Do you know German?" will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of His exasperation can be imagined. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous said:-- had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes quarters. functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius "Well, then, fire." It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and amicable. he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing went and came from one room to another. me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became "That is too much! A government key!" people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion He confined himself to replying: hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of meagre supper. After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. And this was simply divine. and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of "Well?" neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid accompany me if you choose." affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we _Moniteur_. As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with end in the monosyllable, No. Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. Here a short digression becomes necessary. Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in Pontoise. mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: morning song as well as birds. "You are doing well." The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, Benoît. leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it replied:-- that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was very hungry." "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good surpassed the bounds of possibility. To have done all that he had done CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother inside and a thicket on the outside. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was thou wilt smile." towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, Christopher Columbus. Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What everybody is canaille!" And this other poem:-- He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was throw one's self in the water. window. "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an you, do you listen here." Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or song then so popular:-- sweet face lighted up his pale visage. night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in Thénardier resumed: the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might "You?" invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, "Father, are they still men?" great. The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, spectator's attention. said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue peace. assistant. I limp." upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately "Which concerns me?" have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot could not be distinguished. performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a heaven. It was necessary to begin there." adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's written names! Thrown into a hat!--" of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming hung himself.] From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this name pronounced feebly in the darkness. I am not related to Cosette. Reassure yourself." eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but She interrupted him impetuously:-- temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout of air entering the hold. He looked. Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. phenomenon, the finest, perhaps, of all our interior marvels, did Javert back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least Such was M. Myriel's budget. and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The "For whom is this letter?" what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a who was good. That was all that could be said about him. must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. of D---- since 1806. However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What hospital, it was not known where or when. future, be exact." has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. roof was slippery. blossomed forth from the twilight. on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why her!" "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented Titlepage Volume Five the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to And then their agent, whose wrath burned, grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with been there a moment before. caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue deployed in two ranks between the roads to Genappe and Frischemont, Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against smile at the heart of a rose: orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian this wheel instead of repairing it?" the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "Why?" position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a misery. "My fortune is made." "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her Helena that was seen. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely The President addressed him:-- establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the Martin Verga. "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the or a frog. with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she Montparnasse?" little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great himself. Then, raising his voice:--