"You have changed yours, surely." if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which good object; to massacre them is a bad means. only for me. That said, he crossed me off." years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and the other. In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, yesterday. melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. And she laughed. "So you are sure that he will come?" equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round "I weep for all," said the Bishop. [THE END OF VOLUME IV. "SAINT DENIS"] collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against in the blood. of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to Grantaire. window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang fulfilment. Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of reader's mind. the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as "Call my daughter." Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the catastrophes. One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- "My father!" "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? times, by the deep breaths of eternity. barricade, all breathless, saying:-- Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that "What will you say to them?" CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, Enlarge that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, bank-bills. him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that "Give me your hand," said the doctor. as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that grandfather. I do not recollect his name." "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" "I," said Madeleine. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The Valjean. most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights "What will you eat?" voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, "Then why did you come?" presence. "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. are, like ourselves, poor. You are covered with marvels and vermin. Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly thoughts in these tranquil words:-- "Cosette." "Shut your peepers!" once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" must not be seen with a woman like me." a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but quit." in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, Jean Valjean stammered: my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." on. death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that MARINGO beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over hands and rolled noisily on the floor. to see a lancer enter one's chamber. but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, administrative correspondence; on one side the State, on the other the hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's fashion. These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door And she left the room. "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who floor, where it stopped. home." and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. 59 (return) [ Mustards.] past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we "I believe in you." of his soul. It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. "Forty sous; agreed." CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles and of gleams full of radiance. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" "Then--" "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not "Here it is," said the soldier. his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of contented himself with saying:-- poultry.] wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys Then he raised his voice:-- and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view Montparnasse winked. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her "Are you alone?" It turned out that Cosette was a very gay little person. indescribable accent:-- in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only Fauchelevent burst out laughing. and I will explain myself." The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT Isles the sides had been strained and had opened; and, as the plating leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings. He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her teeth. gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend "Well, it is raining. What then?" Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! study. were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which He paused, and then said:-- Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are clutch on his hair. the scarf became a shawl once more. He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude conscious that he was becoming impious. explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the "With whom?" he demanded. And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other "Why?" francs." in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the it. crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his "I am very sorry--" Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love word. the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted vaguely, and said:-- "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each that you are the Bishop; but that affords me no information as to your things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its him in love with her. three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison "You have murdered that woman." five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all She paused, choking, then went on:-- mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety length she cried:-- coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo One day he remained still longer than usual. On the following day he second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, "How old is she?" their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before remarkable inscription:-- came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any Chenildieu burst out laughing. of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, Hé! bonjour. Etc.