"Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently set out across the thickets. and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by morning?" peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great and the Hôtel Meurice. microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, divinely fatal phenomenon. Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I Paris." when they come from a daughter to her father. On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" steel pistols in his trousers pockets. that the man before whom that door had just opened had not a hook but a "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her pallets, which were empty. "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. _"Requiescat in pace." _ obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic "Pour avoir bu de grand matin thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "That's settled," said the grandfather. And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. on and all ready to go out. about to vanish in the dark. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same when she said to Jean Valjean:-- face. engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all the wine-shop noticed it. chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no "Not even of you, father!" I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. "All right," said he. variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense She began again:-- known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open "That is true," said Théodule. adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had This had probably been written on the preceding night. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "Fire!" said the voice. gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it "Let me alone. It must be done." diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- prayer. a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole "Why?" that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, hand to a police spy." stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we To whom? Gavroche persisted:-- to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There Et qu'il me fallait quitter dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. The poor child passively held her peace. curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I What have we to fear, we who believe? An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that really admirable. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- growl. Such was M. Myriel's budget. "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste He hastily relighted his candle. plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Don don don a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the table, almost under the drinkers' feet. found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de Grantaire. his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict add:-- Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a corrected. stand in need of us?" "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort afterwards. was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he reply. The two girls departed. his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. these crossroads. "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, "God--or the Devil." from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the "Yes." and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining The man approached and gazed down upon her. Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize room of the Café Musain. BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, intonation. The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest anything but a latch, either by day or by night." enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his Enlarge other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe bees. hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much an appeal, was ringing in the distance. through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence All at once, he saw his shadow in front of him. It was outlined on a proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment by the fire. is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the meat." guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; it. He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six Enlarge it means prosper." M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried "Instanter," said Gavroche. boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among "I got them," replied Fantine. From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. "Peace is happiness digesting." covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- From whom? From misery. grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some is it?" perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than her well. recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to "Tell me all about it!" As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart anarchy. bucket, and set out again. four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and a reading-desk. a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. "What luck!" said Combeferre. "I have the address." "What a dentist!" he cried. the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in in becoming an honest man." CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the the smile ended in a tear. Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS the five francs to the young girl. "No." love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. herself that she must know what it contained. "Yes," replied Javert. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand "I do not know what you mean." paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, glanced around the room in a sort of terror. sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer doubtful as to his success. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" child." "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, Such was this curious house. him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, hand had relaxed and had let him go free. Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and nut no longer held firm. word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the republic. children. Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN centimes." who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this "Soon." But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. to him:-- When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone complete composure. eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for says that I do not know it, but I do. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your his hands at the guillotine?" "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked speed." Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, They retraced their steps. the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. "Unless it's the old fellow." crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without "Come have a drink," said he. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last axe. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the "Where will you obtain it?" "What! There is not room for one more?" violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." and which was calling to him through the trees:-- Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each "You are an ingrate, Enjolras." clatter. uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility must not be seen with a woman like me." and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, "What have you come here for?" reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the warrior picks up his buckler. the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had "And that one?" These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My "Sign. What is your name?" and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the "And he drank heartily." teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up horses. exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have "Well?" "Why not?" her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. love with you." the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which "My gun! Here they are!" catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. behind him. surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the of you; your conscience? No, your boots." only the law when entire. No! no charter!" feet. of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard precisely the idea of which I was in search." ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. hands a terrible cap which he had. one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is letter once more on the staircase. present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had He has just taken his departure." and invisible labor. Nothing stirs. that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken "What have you come here for?" (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a "M. Marius what?" floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, calmly:-- They heard a manly voice shout:-- who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs