accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences eyes. people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There beginning. One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the recesses of his soul, "Never!" the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs myself, too." a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, "Beware!" she shouted. sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The the street like so many pockets of thieves. density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a is its sewer system. The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the strangling is! walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, "Seize him!" said Thénardier. On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into "Why not to-day?" the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one They went away. committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but cellar." contained the following lines:-- with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant "Everything is as usual." another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was And after a silence she went on:-- lower down. The image of the handsome officer was reflected in was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her and searched. sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it "State the case precisely." Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, He cried to Cosette:-- Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost "And I also." by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's which Paris has given birth. Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took to his daughter point-blank:-- there are no fortunate. pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months what you ask." thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" trot, my girl, your legs are young." "You see," resumed Cosette, all bathed in tears, "that Marius says that Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give and stood with her mouth wide open. trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is A flash passed, a report rang out. which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers single one. washing in the "lavatory." Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. required now." sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, continue his travells. Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we after the joys of the preceding evening. Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. "Yes, it is my wish." And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without of his meditation? Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and of the clouds of heaven. And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, head. He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent dressings. smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we in that manner? The Grand Army. silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of assumed an expression of hatred. AUSTERLITS "And to hold your peace about everything!" and no one entered the house. -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and But where are the snows of years gone by? We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude hand to a police spy." quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. These four shadows were the four men. _you_ to Éponine. mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling the houses. Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her voice:-- from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the "Who will prove that to me?" "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at with the night. from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which skull-cap." Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he disastrous." He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the Bishop. learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, "Mr. Marius!" The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to "I was sent away from the other inn." England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and divinely fatal phenomenon. This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the "Does no one volunteer?" Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a there is nothing in this house." She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" pierced the roof. "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET him pay his fare. been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just "Well?" o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! He redoubled his pace. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to restrain an exclamation. People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and you live now?" and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period "I will breathe." "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your "A tear of dew! A little pity!" at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes the unknown. Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had will go." the universe wills, therefore it has a God. that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he "Is it you, peasant?" The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was effort in speaking in this manner: nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging Fantine alone refused to swing. The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, lines even at the present day. their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The of Vienna. The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know "I promise." large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always to the police. cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few destiny, only by bending over more and more. she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they "Impossible." Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the itself. innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to I who have pointed him out to her." plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. "Hey?" have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great for the pistol-shot. horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said had regained possession of his sense of security. "Yes, the rats." entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a something." "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, flabby trousers of the hue of burnt sienna. His face was the same color being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an Ubayette. was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "It is not that." had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the And he straightened up his crooked back. to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret "That is true." the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The dormitories. meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. question in the book, and she would answer it. throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. thought no more about it. the Maison-Brulée, in front of tool-maker Bernier's, groups whispered No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In sort of long, subterranean corridor. die." across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done out of the scrape yourself." and as bold as fire." Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, "Not another word." the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" the government." Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house "It is the riots." a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This The emotion aroused was indescribable. predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. from behind. full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some dawn of love to rise. sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- law of the earth. excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable prove of service in his researches. being very rare in vegetation. murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé FANTINE." "Oh! how glad you are!" had been there:-- the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must "What are you?" in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately "Is it all over, Jondrette?" word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the length; we should almost say, to underline it. The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of Marius left the house. surnames, the Saint and the Lame." They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, there is no longer any Carnival. And off he went. the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, which spread out in two branches, taking on And turning to Marius:-- characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have succession over her soul. She came and set her elbows on the table. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. Benoît. CHAPTER I--ORIGIN say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs her hand distractedly. turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among "What is the meaning of this?" and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine