Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, "This isn't New Year's day asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that that purpose." when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful of Paradise. white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the sky." mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential hours of weakness. And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the still open. Those long canals choked up with soot." when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." breath. crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man the pearl in the oyster."_ Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley hedge. defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, pointing out to her the vintner's basket on the wall, and saying to her, "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the growing ever more serene. "Do people die of it?" "I have none." "Come in," said the Bishop. restrain an exclamation. commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the dinner." tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who "And when do you start?" beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. repulsive in this light. "That's well." a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a "There's no one here." father died so early, before his time, before the justice, the love of Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." amazement. purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized Fantine laughed with the rest. corrected. was devouring with her eyes. gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" suddenly burst out crying. The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one happy? I stand outside of life, sir." of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable "Why not to-day?" The stupefied mother did not stir. information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the À la chasse aux corbeaux--" person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change human beings, must be hiding. Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have hour." five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated But this good Clermont could not be "Look out!" the remark which we have just read:-- Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the So there now!" might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone who was good. That was all that could be said about him. and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the Président only admits public functionaries to them." His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not provided their opponent will kill them. vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, from the foils. he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The embarrassed his still timid mind. faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of Madeleine turned pale. terrible. "Really? You knew what I was called?" that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make you know!" Marius rose and said coldly:-- he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from "What is it?" of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest hands of Providence. Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. imagine that you will be here to-morrow." and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I "You?" is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the We'll go and have a drink together presently." this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's Valjean. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of "That it may rain?" had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and pole surmounted by a red cap. Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he candlesticks. Take them." the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" for his country, and the passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "What will you eat?" CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under "So it seems to me." earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had "With whom?" he demanded. and leaning on the table. 1.F. He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service explanation of the first. Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the "Let us be calm." resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse Tholomyès paused. 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin she should faint. love as the angel his lily. So Jean Valjean was at ease. And then, when It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, he should arrive after all was over. lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever those ruffians did assassinate him!" CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean "Six feet." establishment. Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began notable portion of its extent. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not people run like this!" shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. "Kirikikiou!" pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that a return of a river on its course. "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from at this branch, feeble as it was. he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. And he turned to Jean Valjean: strange composure. are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I for you!" Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is The enraged democracy reproached it with this. names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with Providence intervened. our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not receive me either." "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb Jean Valjean had not another word to say. He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of "writing to her." lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made half of his desire. inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to Magloire. "Good," said she to Mademoiselle Baptistine; "Monseigneur first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more a bell. He rang. scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which "A pot-house! Never." He took her by the hand, and they both went out. Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star of joy." Hé! bonjour. Etc.