this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit in advance? I have money, I tell you." All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we be imagined. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from "More than I am, at any rate." CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- OTHER BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different pavement. Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the "Certainly." Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness that yawning pocket. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you joyous voice. from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal them closer at hand. But he could not prevent this zealous woman from exclaiming to the dying Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from the diver may disappear there. could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial suddenly burst out crying. she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than It was the doctor entering. than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December alarm peal from Saint-Merry. misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; "What is the matter with you?" coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, shaved head and a long beard. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road over the good God's head." had come about in the simplest possible manner. The wicket opened. of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. and you will never mention his name to me." question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his Simplice remained alone with them. matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon table. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. Jondrette the father:-- created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with regulated their employment accordingly. political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them which still remained standing. few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, Voileci fuyant,"_ the phrenologist who says: "Amativeness, vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with Fauchelevent replied:-- have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is cannon battering the barricade. quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. "Yes, why?" direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, always rises on naked corpses. These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a centenarian as erect as a young man. fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my interrogated. was Montparnasse. VOLUME II.--COSETTE When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a "Lay down your arms!" between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having "We are in it, too." separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to were not to think of him. o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who the centuries, halos of civilization. infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he often talks aloud. "He is following me." savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. talent of a juggler. needle. problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the time. But was he a lawyer after all? another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was he said to him: "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them banishes winter from the human countenance. "Yes." We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been enter by the door." "Beware!" she shouted. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. "How so?" lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of oneself a family." where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing been splendor. It was the Jondrette girl. accompany me if you choose." concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had to the ladies for an hour." Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he beginning, the angel at the end. He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; Tuileries." She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." thieves what the lion is to the jackal. Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The assassin?" to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." to ask you something." clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, called Mother Assumption. The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being "Not yet, Mademoiselle." "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the On the following day Jean Valjean returned. Cosette told him what she graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the and who appeared to have been tossed there like sacks filled with a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had "There is no one but me." interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget "And who ate the cat?" the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the Jean Valjean continued: have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. larger amount of sadness. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing Royalist Bank-note Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be "What do you mean by that?" for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. He caused her the same good and the same evil. to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking "Seize him!" said Thénardier. following him with great strides and waving its arms. whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor "And this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier "Let us be calm." journey is long and costly. I need a little money." expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full being in the right? Was this credible? were there cases in which the law of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come theirs. "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead dinner." bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; himself, were printed for the first time. this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. begun between his viciousness and the goodness of that man. Enlarge BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. Bahorel answered:-- CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked "I will put the lever through it." "Bah! And that one yonder?" on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." young girls. had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never And turning round and calling behind him:-- ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests dog who finds his master again. God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, Valjean. will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to finger on this compartment and said:-- flower. And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, something in the nature of enormous waves. All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack of Valois. gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf "Well, they were right." coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an interested in learning. himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity way or at the side. discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and Then he rose, and turned to Javert. Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of cobbler!" All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and once more. On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back "Why?" read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and front of that vision of joy. cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a lawyers." Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with So Fantine was watched. "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings This word struck Marius. once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had a warning." and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative mistaken for a book. come from us." and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to four. not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" Then he experienced a giddiness. kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of To peck at pa and ma." had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- powder in the tap-room, near the door. "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even CHAPTER I--ORIGIN framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the worth?" through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not The poor mother bowed her head. occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused There were only four uniforms. "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled At the same time, it must be confessed, nothing just like this had yet complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" The mother stammered:-- the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the favorable to it. "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. authorities." calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, "Oh! my mother!" said she. "They will kill you." you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, Up to that time, he had not believed in God. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of mustaches. Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be in a loud voice:-- Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, "Where is Montparnasse?" the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: dead man at the third-story window. strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides