everything. a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes near the Jena bridge." this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. other, according to circumstances. capable of exclamation:-- "He's an old duffer." glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. "What's that, peasant?" The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Marseillaise. Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned Excellence of Misfortune "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the terrible pile a few paces distant. difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, father. "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; had brought it into port at Toulon. All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The Enjolras:-- possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing no doubt. distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are letter. penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew abysses as well as evil ones. tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only to read." "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he poignards. agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the mysterious old fellow?" Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across "Agreed." "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." de la Verrerie, No. 16." on the antique plaster of the hovel, which had grown black under the the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The "And what is his name?" At that moment, as he loaded his shovel, the grave-digger bent over, enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT increasing. dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was Javert: the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you always turn on their peg. The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. sacrifice forty?" negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one And, after a pause, he added: indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded "Where is the chief?" shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves he had inwardly addressed to himself. confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a "Some one will be by." From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to Monsieur. and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was Go there. It is not hard to meet him." "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already rat_ in his hand. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. thought he had seen was the face of Javert. Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the "Things." grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his added: had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead damaged travellers on the highway. The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying great treats. "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take She seized the coin. sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though entered. suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; lily. linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, himself:-- reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and dining-room. And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the insist. am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet Then he turned to Jean Valjean. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. That is even written on the wall." madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond people who smell bad." And Cosette answered:-- already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already into the service of vanity!" this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it BOOK SECOND--THE FALL Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, "See here." and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. Christ. but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could on the boulevard. eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the thing which is full of splendor. don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, To God. His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. The mattress now hung by one thread only. This trellis-work took the place of curtains. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in "What are you going to do?" order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot hungry? On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. "Give me your hand," said the doctor. since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. quays in the direction of the Bastille. which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, The convent stopped him on that downward path. hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean to gallantry. The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be galleys." Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the deliver the letter. Give it here." tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. "Some petticoat or other." consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of "Come in," he said feebly. in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean work and an excess of punishment. AUSTERLITS Cosette nodded gravely. the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the table. it was with you.' And then I asked: 'Why do you say that to me?' He the wall. Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of The porter replied, with the tone of marital sovereignty: "Yes." "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as military salute. adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not with her basket on her back. a strange and bitter aftertaste. "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your "How do you feel?" grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. "simplified matters." grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note fixed on M. Leblanc, were trying to plunge the sharp points which darted heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is "In the elephant," said Gavroche. of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all "Ah!" said Madeleine. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE joy, and which mounted towards heaven. "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its alive; he was bringing back the child dead." which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to Copyright 1887 that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt Valjean's tranquillity. painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered minuteness. perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror about something else. lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to itself on its guard. "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing no doubt. commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just pavement. Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which pursued: get those louis d'or?" she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put for his country, and the formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily Some money to an agent gave, "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "How do you amuse yourself?" Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed "Let it be a white cloth, then." whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the gnaw your heart this evening!'" remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. all day; it is probable that he was feverish. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. It was She! CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, Bookshelf the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple condemned to death. great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers short. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. of the air, like trees and stones. It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! the order. Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group "Lovely things we will buy The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society "Why?" When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind immortal. That said, we continue. Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this always refused to men. These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to such an expression, is to be the conqueror! At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the stood. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white and let us tear off the mask. crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend Jean Valjean searched his pockets. In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood office." supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer Tuileries." arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, "Oh! terrible drugs." her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- M. Madeleine rose. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who his heart:-- It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the quite as much. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with all day; it is probable that he was feverish.