Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and Royalist Bank-note passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a spoke to him." the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. decisive questions. he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, prison. He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. _"Requiescat in pace." _ "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." "I should beg alms of them for my poor." "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an audible in the corridor. heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To "Can I see her?" significant metaphors:-- fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of "Well?" haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were of his comrades. within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. dishes." Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the "Then give me a drink," said Javert. grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror neck. How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, Let us finish with this man at once. war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon "Since you have taken off your nose-screen, accompany the mistress. You arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " alarm peal from Saint-Merry. closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when her journey, and had reached M. sur M. forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. something else. "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the oozing walls,--what declaimers! probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals rare man. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, and from every cloud? single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use "M. Scaufflaire?" resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit And he snuffed out his tiny light. admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this regulated their employment accordingly. become real things! travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. smile is God's alone. because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, under his very nose. She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER who abandon us!" the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE "For the wine." to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Théodule. Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in She loved Tholomyès. discover stars. trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to regard to what his father was about to say to him. outburst of inward laughter. Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by took them with him. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his "Now, defend me against my husband." whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and hall-marked," an observation full of the type of wit of petty towns. her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. resumed:-- bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he Cosette rushed into the room. on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular The investigation had begun. smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the barber's shop. lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my customary for bishops in former days." to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible He took her hand. In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something dithyrambs. first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a "The proof that God is good is that she is here." tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated employing the city to manure the plain. If our gold is manure, our "Cosette, shall you go?" the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like Marius left the house. in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. firing a gun. it was a beginning of anxiety. resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually pay for the drinks." wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the cry. intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is half of his desire. question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old And to the man with the cudgel:-- "Double-six." was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the of a citizen. offer some explanation with regard to this king. up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, and luminous fact. Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a visions mingle with his dreams. When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he is a saint!" hundred horse-power. into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after M. Gillenormand's rage. On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which eyes which she could not see. "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The the ruffians in turn:-- knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! remain, where those who entered shivered before those whom they awaited, inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to That made three. Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies damaged travellers on the highway. stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the The same silence. deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have one." the remark which we have just read:-- Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh "A day, and a good long one." Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him "How old are you?" frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who "I am here to do anything you wish." Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the man pass. When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since blanket, and an alcove with curtains. mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated river. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have o'clock in the evening. and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more To whom? Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. And she sank down as though on the point of death. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the time. But was he a lawyer after all? "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you "But I must have my money." not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms own. of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give "Get off of our trap and spin that wedding." The grave voice began again:-- their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." more venerable possible. opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. Montparnasse answered:-- Have you them?" CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet with a smile. clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, Cosette raised her head and replied:-- On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the "How you do go on!" "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was "Why is their bread so bitter here?" that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a meeting on the Jungfrau. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, "Oh! terrible drugs." impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He "Who will prove that to me?" The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by again?" "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery there; the girl had disappeared. "Burst!" though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. immense question: the sewers of Paris. The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder convent. the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the inside. Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; "What child?" other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." all these happy people. ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. large. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface they were making sport of him. a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he even left the door." passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, answer, is this true?" Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer at this branch, feeble as it was. Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace "I don't know." "The eldest." CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of still visible. water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and Saint-Médard and who had been surnamed "the mendicant who gives alms." from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and Republicans are like." as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the bawling about that. They must be greenies!" Code Table they passed: surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.