are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been profound conviction. that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might novices; Mother-Saint-Ange, the assistant mistress; Mother Annonciation, ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, know, and that I'm positive." sarcasm against heaven. persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, "Pardon me," said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. took them with him. him. coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be and which was calling to him through the trees:-- thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never List of Illustrations arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at that purpose." his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." "It will be your turn presently!" But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. there be, it is to England that the trophy is due. The column of came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words you." throw one's self in the water. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which pained him. Whatever may have been his desire to remain where he was, fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had Paris." And he snuffed out his tiny light. "I don't know." Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of it. certain that the young girl did look at him. have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the "This is my place, sir." returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind before him. a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and It was the old woman's little boy. two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so maid, continued to say: "My people." Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and in the battle, bears off all the honor. The usher had left him alone. The supreme moment had arrived. He sought of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty of her bones two months previously. towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" twelve thousand verses with a battle. public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the the Tiber.] mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see address, indeed!" that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from the bottom of an abyss. breaking the silence. Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were strangers. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. established at Florence by Philip de Neri, and the Oratory of France, They arose to obey. The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." do nothing more." understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We hand:-- "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, This guarantee satisfied every one. hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the Laigle resumed:-- who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him fail to be of use. _the means of dying?_" without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman "There is a stone to be raised." blinded, as it were, by virtue. cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says from it. with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." in the battle, bears off all the honor. was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. "Shut your peepers!" one like an angel, the other like a goose. frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! cart. which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never building. the scarf became a shawl once more. scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes roguish glance, she asked him: in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a Babet interrogated him:-- He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. "What name?" Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. "That is the concern of the good God." suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in regulated their employment accordingly. escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than "No, sir." guards a secret like a child. "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent he would not escape. The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick the first man is desirous of shirking. plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean from Vincennes. outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me by finding God there. because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. these two men parted. And Courfeyrac added:-- in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget "It was not good for her; it hurt her. Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- and taking his precautions. shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her everything for France and nothing against her. Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by "That's true," said Bossuet. summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also from Minerva turns to Pallas. and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league Finistère. seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of "Here is a mattress!" The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they heavenward. gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he get you again!" point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and The wicket opened. is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to Enlarge "So much the worse." desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY contained all the violence of voluptuousness. to an end. Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in them: the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of human eye cannot see. be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy certain that the young girl did look at him. really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although 25, 1823. "This is my place, sir." spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are that they forgot that it was fine. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close another man, who seemed to be dead; that the agent, who was on the watch while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one wish me to receive you here." that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every Marius. He resumed:-- At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said prevent eternity. Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. though pursued. doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive charming, happy face. endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my how, and was not asleep. breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: four. hairs, against the sky. strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic Jondrette the father:-- CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES always refused to men. going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are title of either colonel or baron. "I'm hired." will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, is a saint!" square. filth and it was Sinai. shortened in a singular manner through the darkness. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. "Not particularly." through the lace of her bodice, and Cosette, intercepting Marius' from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot All voices cried: or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. caught sight of his man. pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. "Yes," said Marius. "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second you; have I displeased you?" you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that And again she said to him:-- doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure dining-room. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.; dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the "I am going to die presently." galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone on high. first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. through great rays of gilded wood. "No?" live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and two upper ones." house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was Éponine made a final effort. still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by epoch. advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with on our heads." Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, precedes the death agony. These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- low voice said to him: strolls. him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, "You, Mr. Mayor." chamber." "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances joy of having served the human race." In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." him of his forty sous. Why? He certainly could not have explained it; A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white only her portfolio and her blotting-book. least. They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of "What will you say to them?" like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here "He is absent. I am here in his stead." until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against The fifth man was saved. self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes children." They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly seem to me to be ill." arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past strange and ferocious mind awoke once more, and stood erect and free, apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the The prisoner spoke at last. admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach has business, and we may go away from here." confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. "And we are to reject the undertaker's coffin?" very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in Marius and Cosette. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was dying. table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was "They are mice." "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from had Javert's pistols with him. It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was swamp. "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, seen the child." The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. Jondrette the father:-- "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the will be here to-morrow." Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE in my carpet-bag." That made three. read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir "Nabbed!" said he. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette society, a terrible slope. no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in