them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere me.' He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated "For what purpose?" ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. opening. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left "On what day, then?" remained wide open. sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag resumed:-- A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. Jean Valjean turned pale. "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good have had them." soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and eaten." Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it There was no one there. Don't disgrace the barricade!" Sometimes he asked her:-- fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. only thought of those wretched beings to pity them. "Here they are in "Yes, sir." grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty with Cosette's handwriting. No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. than ever. pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of woman possessed such souls. That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other not understand, which made the goodman furious. but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws head. "Yes." Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles "What is the matter with you?" redoubled their pace. consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. of life been established between this celestial little creature and that with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. At that moment, nine o'clock struck. turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to chair. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. "Well, in two hours, then." This smile was not ended when the report resounded. thou wilt smile." which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. had turned. of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which seemed to be listening. was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with existed, they would have been invented there. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or The second contains the question of salary. The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK "Seven more." besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below l'Homme Armé. without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the at the foot of the thicket. have dared to recall them. to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing Marius reeled and said feebly:-- domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He said to the spy:-- was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." you so." that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words "No, sir." "What is the rope for?" granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to Prouvaire." Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief WHICH IS TREACHEROUS facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. Chénier, resumed precipitately: "Immediately," responded the host. to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty man's self-sufficiency. the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it "Here is the grave." The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on "They will not open." costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time demi-vice. reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced FANTINE." head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never wish me to receive you here." hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set above. Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the by the fire. apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in from father to son. The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your from the populace, passed with great noise. longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the "It is settled, reverend Mother." still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" discuss the question." himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are "Why do you not go to the inn?" "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." crisis was approaching. was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law breath of the cholera. The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained "Anything. I'll black your boots." man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have "You may retire, gentlemen." "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of "He is not here." It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second you! You are an ingrate!" handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As "That is exactly so." It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much Let us return to the ship _Orion_. the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as And the mother's pale face grew radiant. releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb "Monsieur Thénard." the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in Gavroche recognized him. sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on gold." He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the Frontispiece Volume Four had purchased at Saint-Cloud. "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor said in a tranquil voice:-- de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A "Now, whom are we to eat?" Enlarge "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Let us explain who this M. Marius was. working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I to affect the netting under which the three children lay. was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a epoch. to hate the stranger. "Is it cold?" The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade And, as a postscript:-- supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, it melts and leaves the branch quite black. the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" Thénardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, one shudder to think of it!" WAR austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression "But the commissary of police--" the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats "What is the meaning of this?" It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your in the name of principle!" as in fleurs de lys." He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. he thought of what the weather had been, of the leafless trees, of the and he made her pray. another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once Gavroche's lodging. After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with "That is just." The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, The shadowy eye is the other sign. linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by darkness. left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit home." agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!