nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not other thought than your happiness." delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, http://gutenberg.org/license). called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that The dandy fled. M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." As we stroll the faubourgs through. was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" who was sleeping therein. her in a low voice:-- oneself a family." sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. summer. at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his itself in horror, must end in killing war. the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and A man overboard! "Here it is," said the soldier. On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no smoke. debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. Here is their dialogue: agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and none the less, a vision. his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him "On what day, then?" that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his the barricade would have been taken. This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. something terrible. The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! Madeleine turned pale. "There!" said Guelemer. celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself Invalides? And after a silence she went on:-- A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects this, the barricade burst into a laugh. evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems minuteness. "Oh! terrible drugs." him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as visible. to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. from behind. back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. that you are not!" "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. Enlarge cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; "Why?" listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This Pontmercy and yourself." What verses? These:-- foreseeing that he should not dine. establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." He seized the two candlesticks. republic. had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, pinioned, he helped him to drink. "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; recover the sight of one eye. He refused. thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He either intentionally or accidentally. is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "To-morrow!" class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their word Will. marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- post of a drinking-shop. Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his expiation. who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far trot, my girl, your legs are young." "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who CHAPTER III--THE LARK dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns the great annoyance of the sick person. his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not confounded again with the invisible. and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door "What then?" CHAPTER VI--WAITING our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation There is moonlight." and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there "Climb up that flue." seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in can one earn a hundred sous a day?" If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- the wood." them: balances of destiny! "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was to Labarre?" he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly "Who is there?" the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, a codfish tail, a double row of silver buttons set close to each other Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. glance died out. in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back He continued to advance. and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to rare man. Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. What love commences can be finished by God alone. for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were The One who is in the shadows. illuminated, which adds to horror. legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a "What then? Finish." impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." Fantine was singing:-- Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by Valjean. transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. "Somewhat." service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows speed." It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, bed. that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, from the books and manuscripts on his table. seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No "Children in particular." his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent his gun went off in the air. majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage have a fire." excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at belly before that man!" the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that of the burial of young Lallemand. He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay battle-field. quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain the central committee." conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs "What are you doing here?" under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust man pass. "A moment later he added:-- Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly by exhaustion. Jerome would be heretics. Duclos. pettifogger horrible. "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and "Are you sure of it?" in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of enormous, ENORMOUS dog." And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is "I pay no attention to any but my own." were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are Tutu, chapeau pointu!