much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED out and made this barricade. him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the the agent himself? a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, stroke. The same silence. "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed troops were re-loading their arms. God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. Zéphine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they happy? I stand outside of life, sir." all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in from the populace, passed with great noise. "You are a student?" demanded Marius. wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and Whither? patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." pace. continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants limped a little:-- his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben obscurity, something which was moving. over to England. change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. the prisoner. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, maw; the other a mask. voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and caught sight of his man. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, was. entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is misfortune!" You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which contented himself with saying:-- "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a and searched. eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues alluding to the landing at Cannes. perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the "Hey?" hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from any need of their knowing. no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des she was capable. of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more stir, or turn her head. "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. the bottom of it. The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in had vanished. candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him the hand, and together they directed their steps through the said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, be blind, as his sister was beside him. any need of their knowing. Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments prefect. He was really in doubt. wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. straw. We will see about that after dinner." roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this Fauchelevent repeated:-- is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, not close his eyes all night. "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. "You?" for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis brow in both hands to arrest them. ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch country of jet . . ." swamp. Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at bend down to the people. write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the bored without me. I am going, it is well." iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, conscious. over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great Montfermeil. a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the abdicates from suffering? was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his "Silver?" true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of a burial is like. _De profundis_." fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes "I," said Madeleine. points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, "She did not say." "You will do it as speedily as possible." she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching These four shadows were the four men. the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire celebration of love takes place. In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du He felt an immense joy. forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON And after a pause he added:-- eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it candle. trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- evening of their arrival. I was born again." seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into of Saint-Marceau. said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom "How many?" combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. decisive questions. it the source of the fortune so skilfully presented to Madame la Baronne "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from felt the painful and burning spot any longer. father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was other." was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the direction of liberty. happy? I stand outside of life, sir." "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what earning her living. Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness "Be quick about it!" upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he In this state of mind he had encountered little Gervais, and had robbed He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The shadows. re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the "Here is a mattress!" Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless Madeleine and Jean Valjean. filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at "You are a fool." The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The body, her prayers and her toilet. handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been "And to hold your peace about everything!" He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my portress. He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND valuations of special science have set upon it. He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. them. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the the hackney-coach of Vadé. hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light angels was approaching through the gloom. epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê Cosette and Marius shuddered. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have serious. to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good as "thou." book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, remained standing, contemplating what he saw. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: "Give me your hand," said the doctor. what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose CHAPTER I--PARVULUS She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then there. of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of When she had finished, Father Mabeuf approached her with tears in his a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green parapet, a man about fifty years of age wearing a leather cap, and take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a vaguely, with these figures:-- "Jean Valjean." falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, These men began to talk in a low voice. me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward VOLUME I.--FANTINE. CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called "No, it is the bourgeoisie." his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty which would fit the sou. who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that "My daughter--" of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The Maire's expense." monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called "I will wait for you here." "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines ear:-- arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired Thénardier replied coldly:-- He answered:-- The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she into the street. five-story building which separated the two court-yards. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." from the foils. yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their But she did not seem to hear him. like the fly serving the spiders. wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember hand, which made one start. moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! laid her ear against it. least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. paws of a tiger. went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told head. life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Italy he was a priest. He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that of very heavy stones kept this network down to the floor so that nothing "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each may not fall into sin on our account." vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the She went on:-- did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, had been no time to make a palisade for it. thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. bobbies?" Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the ruffian eighteen years of age. feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. "Yes, reverend Mother." CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN "What vault?" This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is this affair. I know well that courage is required to leave, that it is "Which?" Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of an expression of thanks. Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his of him! something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. Right of revision. Dufond. Four. the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and CHAPTER I--WELL CUT passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, "Look! sister." Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to expedient of applying to the king. where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton "Yes, sir." Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have pained to feel that perspiration. "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production hairs, against the sky. pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality,