And Tholomyès continued:-- Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" position! Such was this curious house. gloom. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet could almost breathe. and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely 30 (return) [ A democrat.] veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the he. "My cake tires me. It is stale." the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and dry the four lines which she had penned, and which she had given in luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the And off he went to the Lark's meadow. is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for And the long-haired one began again:-- evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them from the convent." Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, Only the little lark never sang. sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy "Come along with me, young 'uns!" possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an set foot in the house of either of them in my life." A child's voice said:-- materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes A moment later she resumed:-- Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic Thénardier resumed:-- This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. comrades believe that he was in general demand. It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy make haste. table in a corner of the wall. the picture. prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses Then he added, wildly:-- 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat "Yes." defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, CARPES HO GRAS. to be rehung. there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest past a delightful garret. It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized "Carry those duds away." In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 come thither to die. "No," said Marius. In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their All this was yawning before him. be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, Bahorel answered:-- touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. accessible to the rich alone, good for all sauces, and which seasons "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated dwelling of the Bishop of D---- extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she "Good," said the father. used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the that She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to "aren't you going to take your doll?" unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll "Find it for me." "What is it?" said Marius. _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one "One named Little Gervais?" was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. "What?" Suddenly this darkness became terrible. police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by "To the Cadran-Bleu." The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came Then he raised his voice:-- This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. They did not hear him. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one "It's cold to-night, you see, and the corpse would shriek out after us "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; Why was he going to Arras? school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the staircase. Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen going?" She loved Tholomyès. which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus "Have I not Marius?" ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius swelling Marius' heart found vent. Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post "Will you open, yes or no?" comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, "We are going to fling the government to the earth." "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times "How do you get in?" A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He "How much shall you need?" to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but "Whereabouts is the bed?" not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the than he should guard himself. At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a the central committee." "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." eyes which she could not see. monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each way or at the side. After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there Shot." palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? one could understand one's position in the city; above the This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this and began to shout: "Help!" antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES "With what?" Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, and fell to thinking about his father. Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all wear socks were barefooted. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle inquired:-- guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid basket. and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." Marius kept the pistol in his hand. "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times was burning there. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, revolution since I had the honor to see you last. The Jacobins got the day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a "This leads me to say something to you." proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. "As rich as I am." process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the "How should I know?" May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, "I will go and inform Madame." the key was never removed. being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that "Six feet." The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed "Your health, Claquesous." very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc This word uttered, she sighed deeply. eyes:-- of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin "That horse is very much fatigued." Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. you will expose yourselves to no purpose, you see. I swear to you that It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great eyes which remain open. that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. what you ask." his peace. the barrier near which sat Jean Valjean; a second, of the same aspect, one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off the lesions presented a serious danger, the suppuration of large wounds taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a "Are you alone?" person who is seeking to recall a name:-- concealed, content, with closed doors, devouring love, that sweet On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous the whole world, both of them completely alone. Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, Those long canals choked up with soot." have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they was! I do not wish to know! I know nothing about that, and I do not know and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis derivative of the night. such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt earthquake. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his Then throwing down the pen:-- calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means "Instanter," said Gavroche. frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly him. they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the generosities, the expiation for others." there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY whose place Fauchelevent had taken. The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse which Marius had observed. lugubrious. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is not understand, which made the goodman furious. It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical charter. The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. "Yes, Cosette." He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded Balzac and Eugène Sue, having represented their ruffians as talking material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" Martin Verga. tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy was terrible. "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished unhappy woman shuddered. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire "Was I speaking to you?" the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks mine. My name is Pontmercy." he was free. time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted drew him aside with a shudder. chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. Quite the reverse. man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière