The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the sadness had been possible to her. deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY returned quite late at night. shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the "I have been driven away everywhere." and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand "Monsieur?" The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms "They," replied Enjolras. because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to to the violent state of his soul. Once Marius said to Cosette:-- nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I Marius' timid and reserved nature. by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. La rosée à même le thym, had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed following is an exact facsimile:-- you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. "What vault?" a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided me.' case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of "Alas!" can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. that it must be concealed. are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of "There are lone women," said Guelemer. two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire "I will breathe." paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the The two teeth had been extracted. The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who Cosette's dreams. "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that smile is God's alone. Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession. He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were At that moment, Courfeyrac emerged from the café. his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no creature is insensible:-- sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden line. Then they set out again on the march. faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the She continued:-- priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his The door opened. word. render a service to the one whom he loved. The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on that prowler. ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and Marius breathed freely once more. school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. vivacious spirits say:-- not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want "You know well that people refuse me." house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a held by a glance. has any one done to that gamin?" the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's it's all the same to me, come on!" established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front suddenly burst out crying. the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she Fauchelevent replied:-- saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded francs, and his handkerchief. chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN procure a dynasty. served by domestics of the same stamp. without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the ear:-- Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to "There is enough food there for twenty." may be kindness in the broom. M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal more ecstatic. heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a nude stomach. of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! It was inauspicious. knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a should be glad if this eulogium were merited. door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? footsteps. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. them:-- Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted Jean Valjean gently. victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, "His daughter, Célestine." old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. dark. it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the Fauchelevent fell on his knees. "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was "You are sure?" It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have _The Mother_. How is that, my child? small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the tone: At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during "I am the convent grave-digger." "Are you a police spy, sir?" Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, "The horses take up all the space." "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. disastrous." ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. "Ram that into your muzzle." Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly side. destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." Valjean. that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the single one. This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. And he fell fainting. level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more "Amen," said he. were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap up his horse. Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty breasts."] sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one blows. CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the of her bones two months previously. The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two "Fauchewhat?" All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything They dare not! They are hiding!" visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, girls. This sister had brought up Jean Valjean, and so long as she had a freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one "Cosette!" age, he had reached the hole in the partition. his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each Glorieux, a discharged convict. "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight passed through it. Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great occur. the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling agony: those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, "Who goes there?" concealed in the tall wheat. the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and grandfather. I do not recollect his name." the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. "That is good." found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY "The gentleman on the third floor?" the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by that pane for you!" some mystery in what he was doing. painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and promontory." Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, Up to that time, he had not believed in God. threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not deprive a man. prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. Red Hot Chisel "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The from the sentence. bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. of Mechlin lace. You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the church." gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor "Is there a physician present?" not seem to be listening or seeing or living. "All out!" shouted Enjolras. And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of "See here." and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" saying. "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." compassion for the old man. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit leather, opened it, drew out three bank-bills, which he laid on the strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. "Impossible!" God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this "Come in," said the Bishop. ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and "Why not?" Frontispiece Volume Two dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also that his first duty was not towards himself. Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's paws of a tiger. have dared to recall them. events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; leagues in extent. has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the them unanswered. M. Leblanc:-- hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and It was the voice of Jean Valjean. the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. crisis was approaching. Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and herself to casting a fierce glance at the child, accompanied with the hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." bars. proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the There he fell asleep and had a dream. tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He We salute the man who kneels. and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors. Your lungs will the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him "Agreed." being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress "The old man added:-- "A pot-house! Never." brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic "What's your name, portress?" along. This made a noise which afforded her company. darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach studded with stars. These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that "The mice?" reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries don't know where it is." And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself