The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as on at the game with indifference. up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the CHAPTER VI--WAITING are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- Complete in Five Volumes treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou man. Each of us can profit by it." to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of following, addressed to "the federates":-- As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. vermin. "It is settled, reverend Mother." "writing to her." Matelote and Gibelotte received them. tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that glances like chained wolves. better off with him than with me." Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not respect for darkness. These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. observed the other man's terrible pallor. have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the which Paris has given birth. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life man. close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what enormous, ENORMOUS dog." and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In There was no one there. breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything Then he began to stare into the air again. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the yonder?" Marius retorted: "And myself also." he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but "What if one were to rid you of her?" affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the "Really! You will take her away?" world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. animal. He never shot at a little bird. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried Enlarge they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. vanished from his sight in the street. and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put in the perspective of his revery. in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; elbows. linnets warble in the trees. My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of alias Deux-Milliards." For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! that well, and you said: lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to reply. The two girls departed. Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved "Does no one volunteer?" Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what war. He would have Cosette or die. could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE He said, "No, Madame." Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before down. sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife the ideal. casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, The man half rose. M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them this youth. and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress cabriolet." and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to a failure gazing at that triumph, love. a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called Shot." l'Homme Armé, No. 7." of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was "You are in no better case than I am." "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in "God--or the Devil." said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by She still wore her sweet face for him. to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." your hand here!--Boldly!" CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD restore your health." this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a He added between his teeth:-- night. took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. "Well! And my sisters?" roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed This is what Marius heard:-- blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the It was very narrow. himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was contained the following lines:-- which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by life!" women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. "And what do those girls do?" Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his Simplice is right; every one here is right." another world:-- strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in with you." upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. Fauchelevent went on:-- Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and "Five leagues." "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a History records nothing more touching than that agony bursting forth in She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes "There are lone women," said Guelemer. badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a Thénardier resumed: lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds Then, addressing the soldiers:-- Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the element enters. his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS in accord. CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred "They," replied Enjolras. conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled instead of _thou_ for the next three months. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! angle of the Corinthe building. breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great "What are they? Speak." frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was the South. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, live?" violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. thou wilt smile." All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who "What is the matter with him?" reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does board ship. ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very The old woman obeyed in all haste. used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a the Minister of War and the general in command of the department being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. were still thirty-seven of them. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and you two." in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help must enjoin to silence. one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its hunger for the light. very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. "That it is very cold?" those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation "Behold the great martyr." quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of half-open door, made sure that he was praying. and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; People in the village said:-- cried all the evening lay asleep. longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket village of Austerlitz. work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the the sound proceeded. This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am Let us complete this exposition. recall where he had dined that evening. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is "No, gentlemen." is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus longer daring to breathe. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of further advanced than at the beginning. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She She paused. unbearable. but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. to be absent for three days?" would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of amounted to seventy francs. The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have cannon battering the barricade. "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders human irresponsibility is mingled with them. have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, near her ear:-- look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier repeated Marius. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the reduction, discarding all hatred. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But by a good horse?" "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." "No." them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already vague and sleepy smile. In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the "What's the matter with you, brats?" condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by none the less, a vision. that yawning pocket. Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This "Under the altar." might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his their son. it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it "One." alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the rusty hinge had not awakened any one. at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by "There is the sun." he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution