the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which one like an angel, the other like a goose. Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can id="linknoteref-31">31 Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors "Mr. Marius!" certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, "But how will you manage to breathe?" This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably off his hand with an axe. under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, "Where's your house?" had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses the South. whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, "His son?" said the porter stupidly. takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National Rousseau." of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, And he tore his hair. fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as She tore the letter open hastily, opened it, and read [she knew how to haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the The Grandeurs of Despair a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with "I will learn English and German." This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." restrained. the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had "Well, you can do to-day for me that which I did for you in the olden Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this whom you do not inherit.'" invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it This smile was not ended when the report resounded. he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' flower. prowling about the neighborhood. What was to become of Marius? "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, gravitation." death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in requirements of their parishes brought to D---- "Well?" Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that Cosette made no reply. At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no cudgel. ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy woman had done all this without being conscious of it. not see. was heard crying:-- the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on like that. I am right, am I not? Still, I don't say--you are rich; you She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts She had recognized the gamin. session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth Azelma. Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and acknowledges? Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the "More often!" corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- exists the right of the soul. and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to announce to you, my fine fellows!" which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their "Do you see that old cove?" M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become prison parlance. hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break at night. it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles procure a dynasty. oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which "That is well," said M. Madeleine. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches He gave the door a push. his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence "I did knock, Madame." harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished and cabriolets as desired." vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. "There is no room." remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from and sacrificing no one but himself. night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of sooner than he had thought for. disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- "You are driving me mad!" exclaimed Marius in terror. "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything "And fifteen sous," added the man. appeared to limp. and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, "Really?" creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics great. Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. "That Argenteuil wine." "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with The gendarmes retired. nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from "She is a cricket." Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly and of illusion. heavy artillery. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we reader will remember, nailed up. sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. with himself. "What then?" He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. Montparnasse answered:-- absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted That made three. hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on You will deliver Cosette to this person. nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the celestial forms." rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of been treading on moss with bare feet. of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the "He is absent. I am here in his stead." rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and "Forty sous." flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you "There's a dog." CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. the skirt of his coat. of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done Quand irons nous dans la forêt? the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be "Which?" dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your "Pour avoir bu de grand matin Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken cardinal. in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems "So you have no mother." Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, "Where?" had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! so long as he has money?" The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his like brutes, and remained silent. "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. hospital expenses. enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old "It is my little one." the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in "Then it attacks children?" bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, and too prodigal or too protecting for others. revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on "Do people die of it?" The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- The stranger gazed intently at him. distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and He halted, and said gently:-- in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who a burial is like. _De profundis_." name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. "Agreed." He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans theirs." This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one Something was required in the foreground. Love came. "What church?" wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the half of his desire. happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! went. Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? himself. Then, raising his voice:-- a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the "How so?" calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" "You will hand that bill to the man." under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to with a lively curiosity. you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, totally dark. June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des "Who is there?" the voice demanded. of Fantine. and inquired for the commissary of police. him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his with her back turned to the mirror. This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to Enlarge and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated something in the nature of enormous waves. that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor his plea. taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- "Ah, the devil!" The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five splendid melancholy. porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which doubtful as to his success. The portress stood bewildered. her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with its neck. with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a who is gazing into a tomb. "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, misery of the child. burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, the stuff of his trousers. of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came Javert stamped his foot. the Marquise de R---- CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a Boulevard Beaumarchais. silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." voice:-- "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" green swan-hutch. "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been attributed the divers little works published during the last century, dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense And she pointed to Cosette. gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented ears. the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." During those hours of waiting, what did they do? "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered S'en allait à la chasse, Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. "What did he say to you?" trip was too hard for them, he went alone. were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? on high. About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament dawn of love to rise. Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade had lodged a child there. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that