of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking She resumed:-- All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the "There are lone women," said Guelemer. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a "The little one has an outfit?" "I tell you that he's the father." respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the lost. in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds "Then speak." He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to dormitories. and soul like a north wind. just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into held by a glance. You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began "Promise me!" "Yes." cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, "Then I understand the girl is rich?" secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his misery of the child. just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were to have patience. woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; Tuileries." mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The time. I prefer to go barefoot." bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up And he added:-- For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his anything away any more. They eat everything." account, he owed it on his own. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the "Immediately?" "Two good ones." April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost emit a ray of light. retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" more." the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now "No." leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we "The one who is singing?" his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There "We are in it, too." ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. jugular vein. anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell one there. proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost M. Madeleine replied gently:-- "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and Madeleine turn round. Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God "What if it became known?" And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, Let us fight. citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very he would have expired with grief. impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an "It is settled, reverend Mother." sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable a woman. and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the "That Argenteuil wine." be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it "Where's your house?" ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at "No." semicircle over the hills along the horizon. The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. Luxembourg. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle LAST KING covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened men!" exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had mighty of dung-makers. Certain success would attend the experiment of "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable She read:-- organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned He went on:-- He paused; then began again:-- nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as "Caught!" passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the "No; Choux." the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you there. the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that Sanglote, Sob, repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it He glanced at the cloud. "Expectations?" from the rain and from all eyes:-- thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF Then he continued:-- peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a motionless and speechless. order. smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle "Yes." The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of He wrote:-- in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has He hastened in that direction. of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, at the disposition of all underground tragedies. permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had resources are lacking him to whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen "You are right," she said to him. with an air of reproach. doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the houses. stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there retraced his steps. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- revolutions, which are called riots. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, had to be done again. corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where run in debt there. shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof "That is possible." Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks Enlarge "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point did you bring so many; they were not needed." foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the authorities." Below the last line he signed: "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of God. buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the "--Dier." Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus his family." the basket of silver is?" devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light repulsive in this light. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered Had Marius wedded the convict as well? but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and Brevet, and Chenildieu. "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of And he added:-- certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house The man who was knocking paused. What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his a return of a river on its course. her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt either intentionally or accidentally. back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a He entered and said:-- permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, "I am entirely devoted to the convent." eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be "I don't know," replied Cosette. that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes who bear wonderful fruit." It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected wood full of violets. a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized convulsive element resembling hope. busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her "Better. Is your master up?" The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, of realities. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "André Chénier!" that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; it? He did not comprehend. precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the He began by putting himself on trial. from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the now it reappeared. And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- had risen; it had begun to rain. baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required "Éponine." Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked pass it before it is shut." the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am trifles of straw and cocoanuts. that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the Cosette." "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' the thigh, that's all." to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, The father exclaimed:-- "Do people die of it?" stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader light to shine through. Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to "What am I to do?" life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the monasticism. BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. period? of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, misery. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. Here, come to the Chaumière." the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, Marius and Cosette. to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so "It was Madame Thénardier." The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, Who were these Thénardiers? "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about "I'm bought by the government for to-day." "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to breath of the cholera. Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a "Why not?" vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of copied or distributed: shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated shouting:-- BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a impelled to accost that child. within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he