back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense "For my part, I shall not return." dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was An instant later he had disappeared. knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just "Why, get out as you came in!" He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by "Well, go and get some, then!" "And I know how to write, too!" This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with He spit it out with disgust. superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. "What for?" straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid ambuscades of providence! own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred Providence?" of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours itself which creates them. "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right unbearable. What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against As for the man, he was the same as usual. girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor chair. you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty "I don't know." At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We "Give it to me all the same." The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That things." has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each Thénardier began to dictate:-- knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be fail. at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable Ça Ira. one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since "You knocked him over cheap," said he. concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, revery. be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: "Come in," said the Bishop. men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, The second contains the question of salary. nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh. frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to "State them." redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as something terrible. above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot "Permission to adore each other!" goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is "What did you come here for?" At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness interesting." on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted "No." he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What restore your health." strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of from the sentence. pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent "Will you take yourself off!" Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, CHAPTER III--THE LARK not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. Then she fainted. "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] pavement under his feet, but only mud. The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not the woods. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I die." little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. "Lay down your arms!" the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought What a reason for lasting! you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand Carnival to the Parisians. "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that military salute. touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see low voice, as though talking to herself:-- was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' A singular incident supervened. vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to "Impossible, gentlemen." This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE Delorme Alley. had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is respect for darkness. replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- was not furnished; there was not even a chair. prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man He bent over and picked up the purse. it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give "Food and lodging," said the man. through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists "All out!" shouted Enjolras. destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my and was spying on his proceedings. At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is makes one shudder!" perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room "And can you get a lever?" Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; Who were these Thénardiers? the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."26 the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the curiosity by day. your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in him. That which he had said brought him nearer to him who is in death. She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and might gaze into the eye of a tiger. it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to feet. he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give fault of the disinherited. profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this lightning. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.