the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not the order. did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, Lark." moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early of the dawn. Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. "A living person." two brats rendered some shock necessary. Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty military salute. that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful "I'm with you," said he. Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice dressings. How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" vanished from his sight in the street. besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. garden and we are done for." ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all "Of course. Nothing else was possible." provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER more." intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only and addressed her, the nun never replied. success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and COSETTE HIS ADDRESS he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found "What is the meaning of this?" Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban." round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and lost. passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall Valjean's. pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish table. The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. his muddy boots to the brazier. said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the was heard to open and shut again. visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not "Give it to me quick." it. of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went Titlepage Volume Three for French bullets! pavement under his feet, but only mud. examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de "You wish it?" trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light respectable old man. conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he o'clock in the evening. hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine "That is what I observed." _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, "No," said Marius. She paused, not daring to proceed further. Rendez-nous notre père." portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, going on. It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; "Eh! eh!" to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point and exclaimed:-- had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little teeth:-- of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the have a fire." peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a "Shut your peepers!" His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. to attribute to them all possible perfections. "One." of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. no more than a police spy." Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT linnets warble in the trees. have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with Was this to be endured? No. _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had francs. perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only myself, too." becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA Enlarge to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. "Do you know them?" windows closed, shutters closed. Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. They ascended to the first floor. innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "On foot." "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments francs for us! At last!" the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice you!" the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. Mademoiselle there says with me--" been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not "What is the meaning of this?" Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her chamber. authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, and you will never mention his name to me." whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, hour." the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become oneself, one is firmly held." "Fire!" replied Enjolras. A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place Thénardier! Now do you know me?" anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to "And I tell you that your name is Thénardier." the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an He followed the usher. Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which "Or elsewhere." Je dirais au grand César: Romainville_. On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. pause. with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, women. comment in all the little local coteries. him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme "Let's take to the wolves' Rue de Rivoli," said he. hunchback_. The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has take only very short steps. Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of. It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back The rope ladder was still shaking. Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops One last word about Fantine. Phrygian cap. allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. a gentle voice:-- Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers "Listen--" he said to her. basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of drawing in and around the insurrection. And he led his little bourgeois away. before they could manouvre. was on the verge of swooning. I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter mechanically, and with a bewildered air. to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. "You will carry her out?" leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty said:-- makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other Words like the following could be heard there:-- already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay "And he is coming?" The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves of a family with the object of founding a dynasty is afraid of facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the which Marius had observed. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more sufficed to make a world crumble. and magistracy. sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean He replied with a smile:-- nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition crack of his door. appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon tranquilly resumed his stroll. towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of works. him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from "Yes." Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a She came and set her elbows on the table. was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he of the bourgeois. to-morrow. and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am something was on the point of occurring. was lively. The word passed into circulation. "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. deliver the letter. Give it here." It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole on the grass. warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the time." with the thousand. it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." "We must!" woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, "Did you see a gun aimed at you?" innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of "And what good does it do to know him?" How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor possibility of any other itinerary. "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook and devoted air. true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: "I tell you there is!" galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " from a gloomy edifice. head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one mind of man itself. "Paris in Pantin to-day." visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that horror. 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy "Yes." Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of "Le roi Coupdesabot I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under "Here is the grave." "I will dictate." shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base the monkeys." the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW garden," said he. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general than heaven, it has voluptuousness. hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque He inquired:-- He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to indescribable accent:-- To No there is only one reply, Yes. and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the And Tholomyès continued:-- "No." mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was Thereupon he set out again on a run. spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" evidently." lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN "Certain men." examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise,