transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the shadows. breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black all the windows of the ground floor. of a citizen. "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, plenitude of man. He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of "Food and lodging," said the man. were not made--" yield you five hundred francs." into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; her. The good woman appeared as usual. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE shouted:-- peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be "How come you here? What are you doing here?" to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean "It is so solitary here." The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To "But--" mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle chamber and that it should be he. Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his "There is going to be a shot to fire." events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he It was the voice of Jean Valjean. Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit He went on:-- shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that to him. All is explained. You understand." very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. them all day in vain. archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing "There is no room." added with a shudder:-- contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque The barricade applauded. smoke. Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on Other expressive facts came to light. the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath Marius' brow grew more and more severe: doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in "Then I understand the girl is rich?" liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, consisted of:-- "You may retire, gentlemen." Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS increase of rage. from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; attacked, spectres resisted. Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his odious. Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world them in a grumbling tone which was full of adoration, "Ah! there you not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our front of Cosette, saying:-- "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city frogs held their peace. said to the spy:-- None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in pallets, which were empty. the dense mystery which enveloped that grave and singular person on whom CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little "Very cold. It is snowing." your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence brazier. exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were to be more irritated than amazed at this. is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a visage of one damned. And I accept this isolation of hatred, without midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; "Ah! it's you, you scamp?" said he; "you shall have nothing." "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his There was no means of opening the gate. encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was "Here is the pay for two days in advance." your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who the pavement. haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ and I will explain myself." but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a The married pair disappeared. all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and Thiers.] The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in "So you have no mother." potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS coldly and sadly:-- medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles in the town-hall. This man had rushed into the flames and saved, at the "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, "Why not at once?" Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, "By messieurs the wagoners." one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in "He is coming!" "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the coward. What do you say to that? You are vexed? You did not expect to "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a shivered. bread, that I have not a single sou, that I am a villain! It's three Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself oneself, one is firmly held." because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a "There is some one who wants to speak with you." which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the who is in labor." And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which "I believe you," said Marius. "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" Then he returned to the barricade and said: equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. no more than a police spy." "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was "Thirty sous at least." When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which staircase, still carrying Cosette. This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS and devoted air. "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" answered himself calmly:-- question in the book, and she would answer it. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five The Twilight Decline age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, "Come, now, this is stupid!" said Babet. something charming, luminous, and impossible. The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside may not fall into sin on our account." who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When Suddenly this darkness became terrible. supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no has already lasted half a century. that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn afterwards. the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of silence. "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home been for the second, into torment. The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered murderer applies its rouge. beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling am!" The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, are white with powder.] your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I "And that you are a rascal. Here." "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has thing. Error! the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the His mind was swarming with conjectures. It was evident that Marius had The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the List of Illustrations This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, "With respect." columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, "We owe three quarters rent." bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; "And what do those girls do?" as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound "At La Force." between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to garden." further. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de ----- spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has visible in the sky. "Yes." "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les "no." there is no wind, and agitated where it should be calm. One gazes at the that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary "That is just." a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to very low tone:-- a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they the galleys like?" like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- afford him a refuge. One thing struck me. This man was what I have told "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes three times rapidly without uttering a word. "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, Valjean. that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed "Which one? the old one or the new one?" iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. She paused, not daring to proceed further. visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take. She had are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the "State them." satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that "My name is Bienvenu Myriel." speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had "Do you say no?" subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility on the spot." me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, And to the ventriloquist:-- stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old almost fierce. lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne dream. his house to any one who was in need of anything. "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In is itself an imitator. several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without very well. He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear. That word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without there was in Danton something of Hercules. Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES anything to eat?" Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; Force. be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE abdicates from suffering? at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable