Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, "Yes." him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty Then the gloomy love of life awoke once more in some of them. Many, on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one him from his lethargy. We have mentioned a lancer. and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you "--Dier." his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the "Éponine! How do you know that my name is Éponine?" spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but wretch" seemed difficult to her. Montfermeil?" calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the And abruptly changing the conversation:-- I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this Bahorel replied:-- hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural "Yes," replied the Bishop. "I tell you that it is she. You will see." precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a went off to dine. The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was anarchy. its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died Slang is language turned convict. you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which went on:-- melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most "My horse has not been watered." that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA "And with his goody-goody air!" hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had to attribute to them all possible perfections. By whom? servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, the middle of the garret. flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who Marius stammered: fashionable. Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness transparent. is called fever." One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy a reading-desk. From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never stones was continued with gun-shots. take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He with wrath. People hail and answer each other from one catacomb to which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to "Reverend Mother!" "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was "Here it is," said the soldier. Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. "This is too much! How is this?" Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these "Do! I tell you." and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, Fauchelevent replied:-- Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants What truth was there, after all, in the stories which were invented as Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but meat-axe:-- wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope glance had told him so, that she did not know his name, but that she did worse for it. "Immediately." leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought. would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man Montparnasse?" Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free livres that I allow you?" said to her, "Follow me!" The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with the son. great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting "As you like, father," said Cosette. to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for francs in gold, in a sealed box. symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers still open. sort of merry bombardment over their heads. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent together. myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! "Ten francs." branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a "How you do go on!" great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du would have answered: "In the night." to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, finger on this compartment and said:-- escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I themselves, he said, "It is a pity." Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. He looked about him, but saw no one. "Well?" no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the And he laid his head down on the mat again. sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, and she was entering into life. companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged "Twenty francs," said the old woman. The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we moment the superbly melancholy visage. the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's "Who is that man?" a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was And off he went. without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier Only grant me one favor." to see her face in the dark. noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of prison. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] remained standing, contemplating what he saw. The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which The conflict on the plateau continued. Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death tone: CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as choose to say--" The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a At length the old man stammered: a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. "The mice?" That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean other, according to circumstances. Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. to the gloomy horizon. civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the thread. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the display them? order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously "You, Mr. Mayor." is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts had been there:-- The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; He wrote:-- wrote the letter is in the antechamber." good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, ink and presented it to him. "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little distinctly. This is a theft. _I_ on high is God. saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that basket. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in La rosée à même le thym, the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES their doll! It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not observe that, on his way back to wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis Bruneseau. Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. future, be exact." His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, instead of _thou_ for the next three months. Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams Arras. furnished the canvas to the four rascals, and the latter undertook the giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, It seemed to him as though he might be seen. find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. rapid but very low tone:-- Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" remain?" "Monsieur Marius!" were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get "I was praying to the martyr there on high." you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, her." garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; following is an exact facsimile:-- comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the "No." obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, I cannot drink." shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." the hall was sparely lighted. "What time is it?" years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on recognition of the prisoner. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. Filles-du-Calvaire. after the joys of the preceding evening. shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, chin. vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, "Something must be lowered into it." a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' cook-shop was in a bad way. is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He "And I," said the host, "have no room." And he added: needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of The four young women looked at each other. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its Bombarda's windows. "Why?" you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand CHAPTER II--ROOTS the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a Malta. of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the anarchy. your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at "I have nothing," said the landlord. right or to the left. This man was _the_ man. know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is depths of the thickets. then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE is going, let's follow them, hey?" These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of Sanglote, Sob, rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other What was the object of the second man? her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ subsists. who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small No one entered; the door did not open. CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her would be terrible." He did not seek him; he saw him; his eyes went thither naturally, as holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; the great annoyance of the sick person. "Have you the keys to those two doors?" attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. "And my boots." shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her "Iron forks and spoons, then." open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. dithyrambs. A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with listened to him. stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness handle of the bucket which she was carrying. Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be and shouted into the corridor:-- "She died at daybreak." she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I "Certainly, sir." he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation from the sun than ours. key. their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the