cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the "I cannot." of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were "I pay no attention to any but my own." it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an couverte_. though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] Villiers. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on anything. ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in Thénardier." the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by of rock. Avait une épingle où je me piquais. on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did To this there is but one reply: "In former days." pass it before it is shut." the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with "Do you know that man?" Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once Ubayette. would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his Code Table relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between the bottom of her pocket. thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw to the violent state of his soul. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." to earn that?" travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we "What for?" seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a "Into the vault." BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged her cease weeping. same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, "No." Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. the wounds themselves. The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated procure a dynasty. with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls he was that convict." den. officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that "But before that--" This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his "How many?" this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean breakfasting with us, being my father." "Give it to me quick." Monseigneur Welcome, we should have understood and admired his protest One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking Let him listen to what follows:-- Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides pretty." certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every phrase well:-- "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history She uttered a feeble cry. href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, It was Sister Simplice. "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "It is pierced." others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." yonder?" polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. "That is certain." to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, "Rest easy." In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy "Me! me! me!" something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled "No." earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the He started to his feet. "Where would you have me go?" agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom "I am extremely sorry--" encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young is itself an imitator. however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of further advanced than before. staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears held by a glance. Then he raised his voice:-- garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT The Resurrection Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in ingrates, his country and myself." At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. "Are you good for anything?" steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal thousand years ago, "March on!" a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle blind. paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with Marius. could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him the waistcoat across his breast. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very points of their bayonets. Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he "He told me that he was in good health." labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession. of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic in the street. There's not a woman round." heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills Enjolras cried: CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE not be there." "It must be, said a warrior." here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for decisive questions. stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the thread. They pressed each other's hands. her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she Jean Valjean stammered: "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that been summoned." pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other "Turned out," said Javert. Dépêche. (Make haste.) It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was The same silence. About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning old-clothes broker at the Temple. and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not _"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." _ of rock. They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. "I have dined." condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a appearances that people affect." Damascus! much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of done." CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of Or they uttered haughty comments. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. with an air of reproach. As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" CHAPTER IV--A Marius made a movement. for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. an old hat and his purse. boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this us. We shall not loose our hold of you." more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. "Adieu, Madame." It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. He had finally grown bold, and approached the bench. Still, he did not meant to scratch, and she lacerated. ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and "I have none." I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more "Will that be all?" rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, The prisoner resumed:-- The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their garden," said he. said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the thousand francs. to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, he adored. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK Éponine turned to the five ruffians. This rope fell at their feet. she was trembling. This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a Courfeyrac replied: ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! came." savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there "We may depend on you?" stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a she asked him:-- sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be She was shivering. "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before precaution as though he had stolen it. most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, "I am dying," said she. Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is forcing him to it. passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, question in the book, and she would answer it. "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of "Where is the chief?" And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is guards a secret like a child. not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles. would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was others. the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, "Keep on your masks," said Javert. perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or the waistcoat across his breast. 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its loudly:-- recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and And he hastened to add:-- subscription." to say, repose. is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many pass it before it is shut." and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. symbolical. At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes Marius' silence answered for him. Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording important things. They had told each other everything except everything. CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! trousers." CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR passport. That is what it is like." them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what at most. What had become of Jean Valjean? "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff Jean Valjean grew anxious. for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable wore in the galleys?" The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his bees. a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. The entrance was a triumphant one. part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You "Monseigneur--" said he. When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said would find perhaps a little pity. She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the A few moments later he was breakfasting at the very table at which