church." _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and "Well, sell it to me, then." have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, happened? He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other Then he asked himself-- "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What would be, he said to himself, if he could put on that suit which was an sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. head. embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to table was singing hers. between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, effect of a corpse." themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were "Come!" he said, "I must not flinch before any of the consequences of in fact, lost. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the "Monsieur Marius, if you please." During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded Javert went on:-- are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this affair_. Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he FANTINE." onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was that house?" arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis And, with a poignant accent, he added: Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; to entrance into the void? frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large pavement of the street. for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure "The police agent. Do you know his name?" the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" him. the five francs to the young girl. On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, to-day, with justice." is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and "What! No dowry?" extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after Brujon?" times, by the deep breaths of eternity. France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose morning." number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a "Is there a carriage at the door?" was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it There was no reply. forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself the Restoration. further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her than heaven, it has voluptuousness. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. "The address that you asked me to get!" "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG "What is the meaning of this?" "Sir?" words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all and charity. discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. as much as possible. He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad And they burst out laughing. street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in service. stage-manager of such conversations. ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. "Do you love me?" said she. The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. foot. the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de She did not open her eyes. bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to "Do you remember the knitted suspenders with a checked pattern which you CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! query: remain?" At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and And this other poem:-- nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their "On the front?" he asked. At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the in my carpet-bag." That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which shed a little light. all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him window. shouted to him:-- blessing." take Marius' place. The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the musician, but I want the clarionet." Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and of enthusiasm. certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who hovel, but there was still tobacco. The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who descend the staircase rapidly. or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third "Is that what you want?" she demanded. a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, playing tricks on each other. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life "What?" unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the She still wore her sweet face for him. The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, Thénardier. way from this paper." and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was "No splashing of the wounded," he said. and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, _Échabeau, Private Café_. precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards Laigle resumed:-- and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that An instant later he had disappeared. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. made its appearance at the window of the coupé. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. dans peu tu te maries."