preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic cannon battering the barricade. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and "Why are they fighting?" one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when becomes "a mental conception." no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions Gavroche. square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from Marius shivered from head to foot. on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near ancient ditch of the fortress-prison, a singular monument, which has The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their "You wish it?" obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the It was he. probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing piece of ordnance. observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and in it at her ease. part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, and invisible labor. "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. child. wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and stupid." Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook "The pig! I have no more." Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every them on the table in the guise of candles?" Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the allow the persons who should be at work to think. possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer It was the Jondrette girl. closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old She seized the coin. away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself "A gentleman of property, like yourself." crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will "That's enough, my jewel." "We expect no one." M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. discussion just now." "And when the vault is open?" Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have barely audible breath:-- long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom added with a shudder:-- intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has woman:-- CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! the waistcoat across his breast. Great strategists have their eclipses. Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the it. "They are mice." to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange guilty of the fault of going straight. afterwards? In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these thing in strict accordance with the text. and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in death. arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. Luxembourg. Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." authorities." "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown Brevet, and Chenildieu. this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he represented progress. the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the see!" A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all "To the fair and tender Imogene--" Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening "Why?" were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points can have me arrested when he likes." made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old ships of the line. Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall "Go in, nevertheless." "None of that, Lisette!" CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Pikes. all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized they will say, 'She must have her child.'" of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, us." centime's worth of chestnuts. The first time that, in my joyous den, I "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, "I tell you that it is she. You will see." This contemplation was fatal to him. vaguely, with these figures:-- He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the glance died out. sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." is Gribier." battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness this, the barricade burst into a laugh. But where are the snows of years gone by? "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards Le jour on voit très bien, Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" "Twenty-three francs!" believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy window to the other. the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The "On the brow," added Tholomyès. a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless a woman. Là branle le squelette horrible of his comrades. and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of And she caught her father round the neck again. What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, charming hour with which grand passions begin. which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his the Monarchy." houses. the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see water-carrier that it is." it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose cudgel, the thin one. to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the of the preceding day had actually come. reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. precisely the idea of which I was in search." thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. of joy." the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little "Nothing." "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called you! You are an ingrate!" the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. you live now?" few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. The Ship Orion, an Accident ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, "He is a dead man," said Javert. Madeleine made no reply. d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still CHAPTER V--PRAYER Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such be an object coveted by all. should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses. Shame "That I may blow that man's brains out." heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous "Patience," replied Tholomyès. What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and He straightened himself up, and rooted himself upon that point of He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At They idolized each other. inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across requirements of their parishes brought to D---- the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants child." monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the Les Bonapartistes à la lanterne! the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all be felt in that chill of the tomb. dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole "Don't approach!" she cried. And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; "What?" The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- Pour Chatou. exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and drama and delivered on the stage. Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense "Yes." Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. before something which was coming after. On all sides there were for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have "Not she, he." "His son is brought back." rusty hinge had not awakened any one. "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? taciturnity was of the beaming order. "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: "What is the matter with him?" nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all was terrible. He went on:-- duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist inquired:-- from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. sewer. One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass meeting on the Jungfrau. grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and He paused and waited. on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second "What?" threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the draw back. offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on but one thought,--how to enrich himself. occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now We will state it. "So he has not left his new address?" Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black not even himself, had taken any notice:-- in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no it was a beginning of anxiety. alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this resumed:-- The member of the Convention resumed:-- What had become of Jean Valjean? "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only as with lightning. triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as