of the bourgeois. managed? Where is this coffin?" arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There "I promise." miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the earth. or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened the trouble of the world!" All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she "You have changed yours, surely." 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. affair of passion!" CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- face, but his name as well. his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" to the ladies for an hour." Parisian." [_pantinois_.] into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and exclaimed:-- "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would four lines on the first page:-- henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he candlesticks. Take them." the truth about Louis Philippe. coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius take charge of the Cougourde myself." mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and "No. Not yet." pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a "Fours." "Hey?" Paris." war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life of the hole." ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; "It is so." came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him Enlarge clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the "I have nothing." _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a fail to be of use. Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then offered his breast. thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He away with you." Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, crazy man:-- Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the where she lives now." "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." "Who can this yellow man be?" should be glad if this eulogium were merited. could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating warning. When I come, they go." The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their "You know well that people refuse me." "Who's Théodule?" "M. Philippe." there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." "From the spring in the forest." mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old "Where does that wedding come from?" you! You are an ingrate!" is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left cemetery. one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which "So you do not recognize me?" peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a in the name of principle!" hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the her teeth:-- But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a heap of rubbish." The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way great care. when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey hold?" Marius redoubled his attention. by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this sort of long, subterranean corridor. as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters Some one? Who? For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations "That is well," said M. Madeleine. is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the "Half shares." "Put something in it." perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding wanting in respect towards the group. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable him that M. Fauchelevent is here." terrible thing. legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not trembling voice:-- there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her It was Cosette sobbing. English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all wayfarer struck into this. department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil Cosette shuddered. He added:-- have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed Then he began to stare into the air again. paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. And he fumbled in his pocket. "What concern is that of mine?" return. Drive it out better. hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, does not prevent them from being of use. the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. LES MISÉRABLES flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the observed the other man's terrible pallor. are visible. of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the Being." the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the once more profoundly calm and serene. loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. along the quay on the shore. A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. "Pay in advance," said the coachman. Javert turned his back. BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded paper folded in four. Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. staring at him. All at once, the drum beat the charge. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"