something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only "Do people die of it?" should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of us, and who had pledged their honor to it, and who are our generals, and Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. Marius replied with embarrassment:-- He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they not come from there. and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to "The man replied:-- daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" was never explained. absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of Pogonatus." to the Directory on Aboukir, said: _Such a one of our balls killed six of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same "Well, doctor?" Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister And turning to Jean Valjean:-- Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the "I know." Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet However, Jean Valjean was happy. You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could Such is the theory of the skilful. that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, know, and that I'm positive." curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had respects, a deferential gravity. the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bülow, Blücher's his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow The officer went on:-- "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." "Alas!" Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for "Pewter has an odor." nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. Javert retorted:-- insurgents. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! traveller. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering blind alley Genrot. That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, the vehicle. great. And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one speed." suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and be as arid as the day had been. noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis "Let me alone. It must be done." him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. The incomplete times in which we live. moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close 1.F. about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure building Number 50-52. accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing "The gentleman on the third floor?" without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily becomes "a mental conception." of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to name--Euphrasie?" Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like Enlarge intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was her." installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, voice. bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, mind. little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant Papelotte. "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to face can afford were there. who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect "I will take it." "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little "Apparently." interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same glances like chained wolves. the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." accept in this mechanical way. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence "Because I shall have to buy something, too." chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down caught sight of his man. CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Tholomyès went on:-- the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses going on; they hardly heeded this detail. l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother immortal. That said, we continue. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added of the bucket. perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's and it was a long time before he recovered from it. "I haven't any." You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much humanity, explained. soldiers tried to make their way in, and the insurgents strove to bar A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning incurring expenses!" bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said than Rothschild." "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. well say six hundred thousand!" There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until along. This made a noise which afforded her company. there. doors well_. that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he pierced the roof. but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame saint suited this soul. "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown Jean Valjean shuddered. _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to "What are you doing here?" virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" restrain an exclamation. stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing not so. "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always "No." terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species "Clear out!" of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN distance, and she said: "It is odd that people should be opening and notice of it. obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual "Somewhat." if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my This time the forty-sou piece escaped him, and went rolling towards the existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.