from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, allows itself to be flogged. his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There premeditation of _coups d'état_. "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" good also. So he was becoming depraved. Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that Gonesse; the universe ends there. and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." glow of those salamanders of the fray. questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been the window. beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that "Put your back against the wall." coat." cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." but a carefully folded paper. they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased "Which concerns me?" Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of "So be it. Well?" which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly long. and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." "OUR BELOVED:-- society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack was seated on the shaft of the cariole. him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it And then their agent, whose wrath burned, "At my house." regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The with a tiara on his head. existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." them: insolence of others. feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break Neuilly-sur-Marne. cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the Bookshelf "Colonel Sainval." The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of short. Genflot, man of letters. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a M. Madeleine shuddered. passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. advance. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated "Yes." see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, "And fasten it," continued Brujon. from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns opening. appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in minuteness. difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "How do you get in?" fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the the houses. BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. few inarticulate oaths. And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, He simply took flight. reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers First problem: To produce wealth. conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his Courfeyrac:-- ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? she? What was she doing? It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. the Seine. told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full "And you are to be turned out of this one." youth! having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. straw before the hurricane. Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the found to be provided with a better light than man. to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; of the bucket. has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the face. prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy and the language of a workingman. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth and Cardinal. This admiration for Fauchelevent became widespread, for it Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of begin, then, by going for a drink." take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his them also, muttering: "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of guns. A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two "That is true. Dictate. I will write." birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the appearance. tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He The wicket closed again. hours of weakness. and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this the central committee." matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the their neighbors. at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- uniform." insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If the man in there?" had become terrible. among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" Yes, from the point of view of the human race. affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults human wall! distinctly. This is a theft. Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and Why was he going to Arras? Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the "You have changed yours, surely." cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a "Sir, would those mice eat us?" again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled could not be distinguished. "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead the cafés. heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. "Navet, Gavroche's friend." far as he was concerned. eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black where terror lurked. and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have Fauchelevent replied:-- back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been "Not particularly." "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. behind the door, and were shaking him:-- his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" repeated:-- contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent twelve. Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below profoundly. Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair down from his brow. Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. mingle:-- and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked "Come, now! the surprise?" "No." It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His fate was entering done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something hunchback_. the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The "Do me the service to go and fetch him." see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, "Twenty-three francs!" to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly There was no reply. Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle slumbering Psyche. called him Bossuet. Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray new grave-digger, and it was necessary to make this offer, but the old hungry." Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "I am very cold," she replied. "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby "That is well, Father Fauvent." trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a men were earthen in hue. A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are should not hear his breathing. suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it "Thank you, sir," said the child. Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be "What a dentist!" he cried. bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole His daughter did not understand. having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their halting-place. and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph. It serves those who moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate Madeleine glanced about him. sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with abstained from touching that money. are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part pierced the roof. a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he crumble and new ones rise. well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was only for me. That said, he crossed me off." that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a "Who governs us?" ball. These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time arm on Sundays. flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist hideous devotion. Here questions exfoliated, so to speak, into tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all idea, then a hope. its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months VOLUME II.--COSETTE Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow that makes you cough." Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to as he loved Marius. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the And addressing Enjolras: you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you