Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore "I have something to say to you." You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that woollen cloak; and for six months in the year they wore serge chemises soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a of a return to reason. sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which horror. on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in A man responded:-- This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated been there a moment before. "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything "Forward march to the battle!" contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front "I am dying," said she. whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the him shelter. powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached the scarf became a shawl once more. breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from "Here's another rascal." "Navet, Gavroche's friend." be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which "What old cove?" wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that draw back. greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where steps towards the door. slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were Animaux_. volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] "And what makes you think that he will come?" inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to "I think the likeness is strong." required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring These four shadows were the four men. "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into LES MISÉRABLES The man raised his eyes. except her pallor. On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice. He had once fancied [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we The shadowy eye is the other sign. him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as each other for support. On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness Javert. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his the epoch when that cemetery expired. "Come in," said the Bishop. But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, he had been appointed Bishop of D---- the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, She hummed:-- crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: declining. millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself and to venture on at least one question. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later And he rushed headlong to the window. There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not upon the ashes on his hearth. die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I himself next door to a sepulchre. venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will abdicates from suffering? all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. eagle. borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, Animaux_. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn upon it:-- when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." grandfather. I do not recollect his name." "Where do you come from?" Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into them in Éponine's hand. set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "I," said Javert. attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius combat. magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy of the fruit only arrive later. Fantine alone refused to swing. quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. where she spoke ill of her daughter. process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of ------ This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no The Bishop turned to the man. It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is a reading-desk. "Yes, sir," said the elder. Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS Thénardier counted for but one man. mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A This man was _the_ man. head. Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and green swan-hutch. bath. own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell "And how did you return?" great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret raised his head with an air of stupefaction. further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that Father Mabeuf by chance. but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, Gavroche replied:-- sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined Jean Valjean continued: feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an "His daughter, Célestine." The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and "Empty?" which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, "No." He is alone. His name is God. night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' Language: English "What?" asked Marius. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all the death agony. It was almost an explosion. Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and the Seine. was wiping out Agincourt. Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" Then he went out. "Certainly, sir." mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but the body with respectful awe. "No," said he. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We and I have lost my hat." to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, "Well, father--" said Marius. there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown The Comfortor had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to of the house, hardly knew that he had any neighbors. shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with Cosette shrugged her shoulders. as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, smile at the heart of a rose: deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. "How do you get in?" all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE swamp. dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have its Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its _hammal_ is the everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of He took nearly four hours to go from Hesdin to Saint-Pol; four hours for "Good day, Gueulemer!" inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound "Where are you going, then?" "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of her." the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the appearance once more in the opening. "Father--" Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He "A gentleman of property, like yourself." it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore "I believe in you." that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. All at once she paused. And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was "Where do you live, little one?" who was sleeping therein. "What else remains?" them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu And, with a poignant accent, he added: stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT any need of their knowing. throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived but it would be harsh to condemn her also. Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. "Why are they fighting?" "Will you let me take my bucket now?" half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have as having a pear-shaped head.] them back." he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which glance of the transfigured drunken man. man, in the barricade. euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An and the necessary base of her politics. She could get along without the "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts. No one walks CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH "The tilbury." had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of "I'm with you," said he. just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the a look which disturbed Cosette. Papelotte. the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I Marius stammered. stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable before they could manouvre. belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three Society of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 " power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It is broken between one street and another. planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long of the shadows which enveloped this man. surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and People in the village said:-- These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from Paris." effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" me." by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which shaved head and a long beard. room of the Café Musain. CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French