the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he "No." revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his And, from the threshold, he added: "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the "I shall have a ladder for these children." sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at windows closed, shutters closed. 25, 1823. alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: changed.] "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. The letter was signed "Thénard." "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating earth. Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and "Not much." the soul like a clot of despair. Cosette herself. 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or "It is well," said Jean Valjean. "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, certain information in a certain district about a family which had "I believe you," said Marius. it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, man pass. they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." night. CHAPTER I--ORIGIN man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around building. and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands eyes which she could not see. play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured disease which must be cured, how? By light. from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this announce to you, my fine fellows!" He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little For the second time, he stopped short. vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" "How come you here? What are you doing here?" Fauchelevent had expected anything but this, that a grave-digger could by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to encouraged them. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden souvenirs. was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better sphinx. Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. an inhalation as imperious as though he had had a pinch of the great "Well?" said Jean Valjean. the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss friend, it is not necessary to pass through the garden. You can always Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have terrible thing! "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their imagine that you will be here to-morrow." sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- phrase in your letter. You write:-- watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in And she withdrew. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there life!" denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings "That's it." the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.14 Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver "In the galleys at Toulon." There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The thousand crowns." THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it hats. in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became me." "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease "What do you wish, sir?" seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that flight of all the forces of the conscience. These are fatal crises. Few CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We to attribute to them all possible perfections. this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his the window. did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. was heard crying:-- A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my for us." window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who He paused and said gently: dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death "Anything you like." given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, are visible. The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be they are not visible and palpable. handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le near, with melancholy undulations. deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle There was but one thing to be done. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; of dying. peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- "Who goes there?" said the master. That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The and twenty handsome maids, General." it. The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" "Where is Monsieur going?" "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le they are not visible and palpable. "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." the skirt of his coat. mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, strangling is! her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low agrees with Talleyrand." the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about Thénardier would scold and beat her. the whole world, both of them completely alone. Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. title of either colonel or baron. dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they Nevertheless, he struggles. commands. If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made "Listen." Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this I was furious, and I informed against you." inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting "Yes!" stammered Marius. attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with needle. height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is the grand crisis, the grand test. Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, and began to read the _Courrier Français_. What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging "A watch." However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious girls trembled and dropped their eyes. She paused, choking, then went on:-- of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six Jean Valjean began again:-- What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and