whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle What a reason for lasting! and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with bourgeois like myself cannot remain under the same roof." Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had all the windows of the ground floor. Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is The Bishop clapped his hands. harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying on its guard. friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as Cosette shrugged her shoulders. which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and "So, you will go?" the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the better off with him than with me." She adored her child. "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never Luxembourg. that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. who, holding him under his pistol, had fired into the air, instead of _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair there; the girl had disappeared. must give air to the English army." Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this the ideal. head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of which is called innocence! to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in her hand distractedly. away a cloud. having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. She murmured:-- with a good deal of acrimony. This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what This question Marius felt like pincers. How had it come to pass that did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a worth?" reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. not to overload the horse?" "That's well." twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach They arose to obey. just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- that pane for you!" counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of glance behind him. The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du "Nor to any one." of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: prayer. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as fire in less than a quarter of an hour. coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the They retraced their steps. affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps His conscience; that is to say, God. the anguish was indescribable,--instead of one man suspended over the do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags and asked in accents which all understood:-- "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers "I am going to try something." to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, "To see your father." out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, something was on the point of occurring. that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving The old man resumed with a half-smile life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned love with you." those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. quarter. contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an Alexandrine measure: along the quay on the shore. astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS bosom. earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most Gavroche recognized him. Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, go upstairs or to remain below?" which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a "Come, now, what do you want of me?" a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." possess no transition state. My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos was. strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, "Cut his throat." certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of partitions which all open on either vice or crime. Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was life of this poor old man?" confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; get you again!" Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen thanks for good. death. "Two axes and a pole-axe." he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." demolition complicated with wrath." mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it M. Gillenormand went on: du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran for the pistol-shot. Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and become any paler. took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?