that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state Courfeyrac entered the cab. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of too late." might gaze into the eye of a tiger. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit "At Saint-Lazare." As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do "I have none." the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good old-clothes broker at the Temple. on. funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was HIS ARM "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to "When the vault is open--" "Here it is." While Marius was slowly descending those melancholy steps which may be called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three could almost breathe. At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her "Here you are!" was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none taken. CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. visible was that the street was deserted as usual. you shall not die." "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you galleys. "That is good." evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, "Kirikikiou!" "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, things." as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES A very sweet life began for him. These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with "Set out?" "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of "Sir?" he began again. the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields "And what is his name?" at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him And Montparnasse went on:-- over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not He strode off in the direction of the markets. human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the What was the object of the second man? "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." Men shouted to Marius from the groups: justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a "I wish to surprise him." returning very gradually to hatred. are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his One evening he had a singular apparition. that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. muttered: have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. terrible pile a few paces distant. binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are "Where is the entrance?" your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those that yawning pocket. Enlarge Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, hue, and appeared to be mouldy. with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here recognized old Fauchelevent. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a "Come, Cosette." "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a "And have you come from far like this?" Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on Marius went his way. of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who pierced the roof. _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he the human form. they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as which admitted of any reply. still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted utter them aloud. purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See little girl whom Fantine heard singing. "That I wish to marry." parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours The conflict on the plateau continued. forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, period? was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall "All day long?" Then he essayed a desperate effort. a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. and the language of a workingman. a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When creature is insensible:-- seemed to be listening. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean building. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. "But first, take a drop," said he. He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved "God will inspire us," said he. "I ask you whether you will go?" with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at PREFACE of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the Exhaustion had ended in failure. had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.