The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the cattle at night in the pastures. is what a bishop is like." are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the blunderbusses, sent bits of earthenware bones, coat-buttons, even the The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to fallen. "No. I knew it before." All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who "Fifty." loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so said: "Old women are never lacking." contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly are visible. blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. Why? Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la Enlarge "What are you?" the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to wherever I am." the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, "Adieu, Madame." Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at wrath. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with barricade. depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a on the ground, and took his departure. the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, This smile was not ended when the report resounded. scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his "The cat." years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there "Well, what?" Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the to others may not be received in law . . ." conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, alone." of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable fulfilment. in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion serpent's change of skin. water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two travelling since morning. of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, alms_. She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, inquired of him:-- feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on "Twenty francs," said the old woman. D----, Dec. 16, 18--. of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the "I have my papers," he said calmly. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the "You are a student?" demanded Marius. was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious banquette of the sewer. Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the "So, you will go?" where I would have planted my foot on you." through the Rue du Chaume. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all "Colonel Sainval." crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar words. That Madame had sent her to inquire why M. Jean had not come on wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in "Lay down your arms!" frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to table. the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the a great deal of obscurity. you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though light of earth. pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been with his finger on his lips. A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and priest. said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at for me." proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last The father replied: soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, that they give you suck." had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with She adored her child. stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. terrible pile a few paces distant. name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and "That I may blow that man's brains out." href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; "And how did you return?" although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation had risen; it had begun to rain. The only social peril is darkness. Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the "You understand?" of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know prepare the shipwreck. the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a "Well?" halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the spectator's attention. the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the We will be explicit. me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." Fauchelevent's turn had come. "I know it." the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? "We have been looking everywhere for that!" distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, thing in strict accordance with the text. statesman. saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with "Yes, and a hand stopping it." the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into "Where would you have me go?" of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou The man opened his eyes in astonishment. degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, accosted him. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the OTHER Neuilly-sur-Marne. at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came authorities." "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a "No." to dwell?" upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the nude stomach. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. to you, was present." that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates They bore addresses. the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly barricade, all breathless, saying:-- day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. "Ah, the devil!" His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. own breast. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily wrath. "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." women's obedience. which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having Cosette halted in alarm. to earn that?" "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to "For your poor," he said. cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to Thereupon he set out again on a run. "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That most valuable of the lot." possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should Wednesday; but not for the birds." authority buttoned to the chin. Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor happened to me." woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and CHAPTER III--THE LARK between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the cap." Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard surprise:-- hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, Marius' silence answered for him. the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of of the preceding day had actually come. distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? hospital expenses. "You will see." at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of as his trousers. philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, times, by the deep breaths of eternity. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my Candlesticks Into the Fire her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so cover his hands with kisses. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a proposed to fleece royally the following morning. vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. _The Mother_. How is that, my child? "a mental conception." afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of "Yes." Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. may not fall into sin on our account." eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- one thing only, innocence. not be there." night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. "I shall die three hours hence." francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, It was M. Madeleine. But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to "Well?" the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter "Why?" bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good As for the man, he was the same as usual. virtue or an idea. your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of Jacobin. I like you better in love with a petticoat, sapristi! with tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were "More than I am, at any rate." friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected become august. He had just expired. "Are you alone there?" gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his should have been done for." in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. placed on the table. the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with of destroying the colonel's saviour? Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS "For whom is this letter?" constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be from head to foot. let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry radiance of death. "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. pocketed it. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the immense question: the sewers of Paris. with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances blossomed forth from the twilight. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame star. One would have called it a luminous wound. awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." replied: "There is a curé there." It was there, in fact, that the Papal truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE "Go away," said Jean Valjean. This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook Then he turned to Jean Valjean. Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell "A spare wheel?" I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of both of which are close at hand. Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church.