of lion-lamb who had been his father. a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same "Listen--" he said to her. Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. Whom shall he reproach? third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked There was nothing in this wooden shoe. He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. But Thénardier continued: assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic lily. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Once Marius said to Cosette:-- over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, "I believe you," said Marius. lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for Thénardier stepped nearer. She was still trembling. infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They "Ah, the devil!" the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, me.' blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, the language of wretchedness. wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? garden was separated from it by a hedge. sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. be felt in that chill of the tomb. The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently of the Court-House seemed features of the night. A street lantern it. apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his five leagues. set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." morning. He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he interdicted. "Yes, my good woman, a soldier." legally, death puts an end to pursuit. square. cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, "A little." that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre not be there." "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my "A lass." his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses of a tragic adventure. And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the Surlababi mirlababo "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your "We were disputing about philosophy." against it. "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of explain. into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING man!" His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see service." any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud he should arrive after all was over. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but them and him. An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You "Enter, sir," she said. "Very good," said Montparnasse. "How do you amuse yourself?" your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette sleeve:-- spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two the right which every man has to open or shut his door. with him when he departed. they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. And he began to laugh. of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the "I don't know," replied Cosette. young and very small, with remarkable luck. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it Such was M. Myriel's budget. invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more bed, will she not, sir?" "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, lovers. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost Let us fight. of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying Grelotte, Lolotte! the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking Baptistine. A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and Then he turned to Jean Valjean. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" arrival, in terrified somnolence. the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. once more, and Marius had disappeared. charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his This communicates with the abyss. offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. candlesticks. Take them." The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on "Because I love statesmen." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one "How far is it from here to Arras?" exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this nearly as follows, etc.] dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo else. besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic "God will inspire us," said he. recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the song then so popular:-- She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the The old woman strained her lungs. see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she become real things! can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, fellow, after all. I am not one of those people who, because they have not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the VOLUME II.--COSETTE "Nineteen years!" day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary either intentionally or accidentally. Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the The man inquired:-- In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc others,--would have been a disorganized flight. He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without child." Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic added:-- chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its himself. cured first." This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier At that moment, Cosette awoke. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, here to this sketch. were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near who still recall the most minute details. Jean Valjean recoiled. Titlepage Volume Five had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything "My name is Cosette." the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between fronts of old farm-houses. shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital affluent. On that side lay safety. constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." talking aloud to me." Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a glimpse of in 1814. What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to The bell struck a second time. She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." Marius was quite upset. to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the And she withdrew. metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented "I think the likeness is strong." could almost breathe. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, ships of the line. that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, night, without itself being conscious of it. diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I Then he began to stare into the air again. defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. the Great with this inscription:-- which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the unheard-of thoughts besetting it. the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the indispensable. The youngest, one. that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the of the bucket. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. "Climb up that flue." leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this to him:-- sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, "Yes, I have." called him Bossuet. apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening her hand distractedly. hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was and threw them at the men. cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the with red calico. glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and "I tell you that he's the father." death ought to be a masterpiece. indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. you have whitewash on your back!" On the previous evening, Marius, in a swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air "You are sure?" "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart bath. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an bees. voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. therein mentioned; that is clear." you; have I displeased you?" of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! in the street. There's not a woman round." Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human something was on the point of occurring. we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no "Who was your leader?" Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that