"What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a lady-finger potatoes were so good!" sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of across the wall and disappeared. And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and strolls. wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! been caught by a sheep. In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier His confidence having increased, he added:-- hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of and to venture on at least one question. From time to time Marius absented himself. point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the "Immediately." That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. sweet face lighted up his pale visage. of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient possibility had presented itself. name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served trip to Montfermeil. for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but The child was not afraid. Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, So her fault was now known to every one. On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his "That is the age of my eldest." as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good would be broken in five minutes more. me." peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some permit of recognition at close quarters. bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been This is what Marius heard:-- Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys "You may retire, gentlemen." solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured yesterday. developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the this question: those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough light in the upper stories. workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught soul. of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over order. Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have "Adorable!" he exclaimed. A convict was his benefactor! and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the Let us drink." to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: meant, when he said:-- "My hands are benumbed." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any to time. sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be does not dress in damask. with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance outside, past the trees and the gate. In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the been listening at the door had removed his shoes. the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it "And he is coming?" had exchanged rôles. in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and lacking in the house. brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux had beheld her garter. "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a "How old are you?" be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name laid her ear against it. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom wall, for fear of alarming her. usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) one quite close to him say:-- to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I added:-- Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that He added between his teeth:-- diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that Gavroche was at home, in fact. These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, "What, really? You are sure?" old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that "I am extremely sorry--" Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a doors opened. the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely "He is following me." The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for who chances to be there! without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the "And your reason?" comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it was received at D---- shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to home." is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up instead of _thou_ for the next three months. those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet communion?" stir, or turn her head. almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed table: "Yes." he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had "Monsieur Dorimon." grief. Fi!" espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. "Do you say no?" no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's it. several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have himself to it," etc., etc. heaven. It was necessary to begin there." still resisting, is expending all his blood. liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. low voice said to him: Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with Courfeyrac said to him:-- of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. "What am I to do with a stone?" When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. "And that you are a rascal. Here." through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, father? Why should he! in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and 59 (return) [ Mustards.] distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich a knock at the door. sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, "Turned out," said Javert. more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in and of illusion. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL him--his father and his country. The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material And turning to Bigrenaille:-- stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical him have only a wooden spike." his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, hedge. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. head. Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be in it. eighty. CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of other." Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly shadow." the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the remember! You don't see who I am?" Thénardier would scold and beat her. France." silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his who bear wonderful fruit." in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to "Are you going far?" little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to le Maire is here." "That is understood." feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound they say if I did not go?" as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. He set out on his way once more. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be the dogs who complain." in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a service." on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance We shall make the attempt. ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put that that was what he ought to do. He could not. and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. and a good fill!" "Bah! And that one yonder?" Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." oracle, and said to them:-- on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. humble soul loved, and that was all. nor in the shadow of an army. the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments already responded. The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics men!" after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been traitor in order to succor it.27 he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school "What do you say?" Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us Éponine turned to the five ruffians. enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and will cover the coffin with the pall." accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He Jean Valjean took these little trips. He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's reloaded their weapons and began again. speedily. hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, "This is too much! How is this?" to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He were two cheerful sounds. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when wall which faced the tavern:-- blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to did not make her appearance until evening. repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "State the case precisely." two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the return. He departed with drooping head. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to round and seized the doll in a transport. CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched sheer fatigue. him. extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor "It will be given to the earth." Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the the branch, and steal the apples; that is to say, commit the crime "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, "Come in," he said feebly. two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. They went away. the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held