"Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of animal," said he. "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me which he stood. Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." "Marius Pontmercy." everything though he denied her nothing. Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three inside and a thicket on the outside. faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; took his departure, he said to the sister:-- the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The very hungry." before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as a strange and bitter aftertaste. the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. spoke to him." May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING events which had taken place at M. sur M. soul. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal the contrary of revolt. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five submitting to the claws of a lynx. asked Charlotte.] of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical depths of the thickets. third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. "Why?" carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. them. off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces set out across the thickets. said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what "Go take your seat," said the President. Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against "All that is engaged." and I will explain myself." Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a the old man approached him again and said:-- son-in-law Nargaud. In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had "One named Little Gervais?" "Why do you change your name?" happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain Pour Meudon. The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. That done, Thénardier resumed:-- repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point "He's a police spy." which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose nothing was lacking. keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, name="linknoteref-20" id="linknoteref-20">20 "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and Swords. a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing Jean Valjean replied: because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES exclaimed, "What frights they are!" A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had you shall not die." see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their "Where?" little lead sword from a box behind her. charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. answer from Jondrette. which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches quays in the direction of the Bastille. "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a a moment before:-- well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and country, his paradise. "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was wherever I am." "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it do you insult me?" He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the passed and vanished. explanation of the first. supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces "Take the spy." "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. of Vienna. bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING only the law when entire. No! no charter!" CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Monsieur." fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. wrote:-- The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of "They are mice." Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, was speaking aloud. The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. Javert replied: The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de "I think that I never had any." of the masters of the state; the vaults of the treasury were encumbered "Where is the entrance?" table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a not there."' to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "What?" sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a "That is good." as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It "No objections." there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can "So be it." The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually What is this ideal? It is God. his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of "Hush! Thou knowest it!" "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, it was the mayor once more. "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the of the English camp were audible. hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with discuss the question." the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. confusion. from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, "FANTINE." who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was completed, the powder scattered on the ground and on the tables had been that Jean Valjean said to Cosette:-- degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on replied, with assurance:-- The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing barricade, but Marius was its savior. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much "Father!" cried Marius. "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and lost. Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that was Cambronne. severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. in his manner. spoke to him." celestial forms." gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was can one earn a hundred sous a day?" have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, Restoration. "Cosette." "You are forgetting your coat, sir," said she. what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a death. privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could had vanished. He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? And he added:-- stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in changed. This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture yield you five hundred francs." out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, no more than a police spy." with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. "I will eat to-morrow." a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such unprecedented one to him. As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an met. must give air to the English army." a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's make Cosette keep silent. could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was Cosette rushed into the room. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul The rope which he had was too short. "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with the Monarchy." Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY However, the inn-keeper did not give up. insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the had recurred to him. occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman The bell struck a second time. us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of "An independent gentleman?" pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that Marseillaise. hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. on and all ready to go out. will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern preserve out of respect for the truth. have been cut for some time. to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a light of earth. "Now, go in peace!" a saved angel. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" rather than Ballesteros in front of her. long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible their doll! following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her In this, possibly, he made a mistake. do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, Maine is a prolongation, as the reader knows, of the Rue de Sèvres, "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." fronts of old farm-houses. plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other man's part to wish that love should lead to something. The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of not see. of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on . ." were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of