completed the bar across the street. I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come "You are right," she said to him. actually followed them. more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England was nothing before them, nothing behind. It hardly occurred to Marius comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. his peace. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of child. daybreak. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH table. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink "Father!" grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; bank-bills. man of prey reappeared. "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, All retired towards the door. She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? alarm peal from Saint-Merry. He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post should have no dwelling place! glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore "That is understood." go to England." between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts "More often!" "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on brought in. the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." "Who?" demanded her father. February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal pillars of the market. quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which larger with the proud light within them. "I thought he was buckled." the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and "Caught!" invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of gloom. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the fence. displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and instead of _thou_ for the next three months. uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the "Le roi Coupdesabot roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, cried all the evening lay asleep. fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little I thought it was only an affair of gallantry, It seems that it is an to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the your hair tumbled thus." a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in "What! There is not room for one more?" of letters. "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and education of girls. hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. did not answer. dawn of love to rise. assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." supplied his place. It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court Tou tou tou An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. affair!" the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may She uttered a feeble cry. were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade "Thou knowest . . ." in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. sort of long, subterranean corridor. not kill man. of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the chariot drawn by marine monsters. She hummed:-- mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of Jean Valjean turned round at the knock which he heard on his door. one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a that spark. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame dead man at the third-story window. after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then "Three." perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet Valjean's tranquillity. bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled The "lass" was a grave. Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no breakfasting with us, being my father." of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his with a bewildered air. be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he managed? Where is this coffin?" calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, Waterloo. the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the everything; the enemy has it." Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of but it would be harsh to condemn her also. peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of gleam. ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be hand and ran:-- pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an "I have nothing," said the landlord. bath. In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; reason they are intelligent." CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate old man's. give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of She read:-- good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of "Just as I am going to do." floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, l'Homme Armé. animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of "There are lone women," said Guelemer. encouraged them. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. and addressed her, the nun never replied. paws of a tiger. Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when "Reverend Mother!" "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to demi-vice. trap; the barricade did not reply. get those louis d'or?" Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to the water. _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, who was fast asleep. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his "Where are you going, you rogue?" quickly." men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It La nuit on ne voit rien, Javert had reached one of those extremities. "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in The entrance was a triumphant one. remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into humanity, explained. she? What was she doing? Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you populace wages battle against, the people. Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his "A pot-house! Never." the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there off by the devil." Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed "Thénardier." with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but capable of that." galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, necessary, I will go myself." "For life." only her portfolio and her blotting-book. would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some gleam of light fell upon the earth. had vanished. He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived "What jade is this?" "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. it melts and leaves the branch quite black. behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which the language of wretchedness. "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. his daughter with him, no doubt. as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate him by the tail."64 Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the incurring expenses!" initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- "Come! Here he is!" M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her Let us cut it short. What do you want?" for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made Then a formidable spectacle was seen. finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had resemble shaved heads. of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; During those hours of waiting, what did they do? "You have been a soldier?" he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the "Untie the gentleman's right arm." zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my vaguely, with these figures:-- to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl Courfeyrac had it returned to him. Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his "440." CHAPTER II--MARIUS gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her "What street?" the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, trouble. At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, Shot." exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that "This is our flag now." the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in The Bishop turned to the man. However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they embrasure. might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. his family." aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its "Is it you, peasant?" head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and "And with his goody-goody air!" for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the "Do you want me to lend you some?" death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the "Impossible." her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's No name is to be read there. The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. "Yes." like Columbus, is finding a world. These gifts of a world to of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is gold." the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS great care. Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was "Reverend Mother?" world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to her journey, and had reached M. sur M. problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not emerge at nightfall and in disguise. think. I can do what I please about it." He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. day." clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT gendarme. fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded and he, he rattles in the death agony. beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, precaution as though he had stolen it. He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the qu'il ravissait quiconque!"