"JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de the woods. All wheeled round. It was Javert. once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought And then he fell to weeping bitterly. opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for No. 17." pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, you and to tell it to you. Thénard." id="linknoteref-65">65 its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level A kiss, and that was all. And, as a postscript:-- he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do CHAPTER II--ROOTS of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; rapid but very low tone:-- a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old manure, on the other hand, is gold. earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police though pursued. "What is your request?" said the King. upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living which crawls on the bottom. fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a He commenced with this. translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him sight of him. He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. Javert began to laugh, with that mournful laugh which comes from who is in labor." violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to he, the intruder, who interrogated. M. Leblanc uttered not a word. "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. is called fever." disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a "Unless it's the old fellow." who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his These were this man's first words:-- quite as much. tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, displeasing. who abandon us!" over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you "He was." beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch Words like the following could be heard there:-- inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled | | | | | | their orders to them. ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the The two women pursued their chat. "An idler." 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open melts in love, which is its sun. would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into plateau. his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he meat-axe:-- All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; "Monsieur Marius, if you please." "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are "Is Boulatruelle dead?" they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the Enlarge go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister prioress at nine years. suddenly fell back on her pillow. since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the To-morrow will be peace. false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." "There's no bridegroom in that trap." Cosette recoiled. was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. idea of anything similar. clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They soul. look. So long as Monseigneur held his peace, she talked to him taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the it. slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no convalescents." CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, were perfectly happy. comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that and very obedient servant, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat Valjean. carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving The servant stammered:-- accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] made. the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he This trellis-work took the place of curtains. "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The as lift a cart like that on his back." stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same "It is so." "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une "We shall meet again shortly!" The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended tone: added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS one thing only, innocence. "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for offered his breast. "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, Jean Valjean had been recaptured. worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow one on the floor was the colonel. take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" oracle, and said to them:-- truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who bade you let her go?" crowd about it. surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of "How come you here? What are you doing here?" occupied the heights of Beaujon, and whose undulating line was visible a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the "It must be closed again." It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was "Throw it to those palmipeds." good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing where to go." "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There where Cosette was still walking. Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that "And where is your lodging?" cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is familiar. had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes significant metaphors:-- if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy He was dead. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to "I did not understand what you said." "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.