armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian The latter, as he did not see, could not be seen; he took advantage of taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back as grave. He rose. little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a "Here is a mattress!" But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de Man is the second. which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should utterance to a dull roar. Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. this?" to the police. dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of not so. jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by "Oh, yes, father." rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a lowered voices, not in disgrace, but amid the scoffs of the world, initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased so. The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc behind, although he had a thoughtful air. gun, the other the bayonet. she should faint. gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, of mutton good? A phrase addressed by Cartouche to a turnkey in order to of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he The Twilight Decline once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. Enlarge "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his The waiter replied:-- Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, glances like chained wolves. him, as to Cosette, a father. Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, necessary, I will go myself." "Twenty-three francs?" "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. the darkness at the entrance of the hut. But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I "Are you alone there?" one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a life of this poor old man?" who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my my head." But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins tone of Nicolette. "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before Marseillaise. action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will CHAPTER V--PRAYER And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to thousand." exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, the wall is much in use in Paris. Gavroche. ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was explain. disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her silence. When they had finished, he inquired,-- above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous She seized the coin. without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, "Rest easy," said Marius. CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in some one whom one does not know. "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was prayer. the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who over and over again. Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there 'pon my word!" defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" are the arm-chairs?" All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. By whom? tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, "Reverend Mother!" The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with "You are in no better case than I am." himself and lowered it to the vent. the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners legible the following lines:-- give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain be composed of future and be sympathetic. Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little from father to son. wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: of D---- since 1806. made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each "Don't approach!" she cried. my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you sun, one must be made. young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, heart. In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that contains Lutetia, the city of mud. and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. of Mechlin lace. right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the passed and vanished. one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every yield you five hundred francs." a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this "What is it?" asked her husband. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses taking it. lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, "No." village that he had studied for the priesthood. your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness against a surprise. "He told me that he was in good health." he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer. Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young "Soon." The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to who are old women now. taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with inscription:-- On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of child. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he with the persistence of the _I_. Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." "Come, now! And my mother?" for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON black and formidable. they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. "By the hour?" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are not look at you and never smiled at you. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.