Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an "Yes, reverend Mother." Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the already responded. The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the "Have I not Marius?" disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what him. of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. "But that is impossible!" into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." raving. venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should Then he glanced at Marius. by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." cap." repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are "But we must live, we must eat--" flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was and a good fill!" of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this In the garden, near the railing on the street, there was a stone bench, speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of "Yes." the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned letter. of powder. No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, alas! to go out. the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor "Thank you, sir," said the child. could hear the octogenarian breathe. was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his represent? The assassinated sage. The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had He added between his teeth:-- exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been the environs of Paris. which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing feet by the sun. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or "I, Monsieur le Maire." puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was the rhododendron was happy now. Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- to read." which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There At that moment, Cosette awoke. Thénardier went on:-- "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little effrontery. The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the He continued to advance. before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they requirements of their parishes brought to D---- a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes him examining the gate with great attention. white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- He replied:-- It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which And he raised himself to a sitting posture. with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. solidity. and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but "Is Monsieur complaining?" Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and Javert began again: my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just "Ah, the devil!" initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, The father replied: filth and it was Sinai. that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- What was he to do? of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in called upon Marius to come back to reality. have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade "I am here. What do you wish with me?" epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out lived to search the pockets of passers-by. One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been derived from it? He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not "Peuh!" he exclaimed. stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost of ornamenting cathedrals. The wood was disappearing under mud, and the It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole both; that is to say, a thief." A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. letter once more on the staircase. _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and D----, Dec. 16, 18--. "Do not weep," he said. poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the single chair of any sort. in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he resumed:-- word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, Friends of the A B C 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a _administration_ had not _robbed him_." "Hey?" dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the battle at Waterloo. serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the silently made ready their guns. A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do themselves by nature joy and happiness. venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the ink and presented it to him. being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of country and had been there before. He raised his head and recognized Éponine. angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned "You?" He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." "No," replied the husband. "You are right; read!" "It is settled, reverend Mother." And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had mind of man itself. worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have glimpses. Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there And he straightened up his crooked back. He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in Brujon?" something grand has been done. progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or he survived after he was shot. parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.