his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. "Cosette!" The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and cemetery. she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military We have never understood this sort of objections. printed off on the blotter. "Why, get out as you came in!" "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name it was formidable for that epoch. francs for us! At last!" prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue follows:-- to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his She turned to him with a stupefied air. Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway descend the staircase rapidly. we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF of the English camp were audible. a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at astonished a man." the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, "Forward march to the battle!" infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and He hastened in that direction. Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of vent to that startling cry:-- without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the and cabriolets as desired." What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, at the moment. million for the town and its poor. The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. "Ah, the devil!" the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his soul yonder which is lonely." which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the things, the true historian mingles in everything. Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence "I am here to do anything you wish." "And your name?" They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been "Enter, sir," she said. friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more his course towards the Halles. At the corner of the Rue des Bourdonnais, knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let God. water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a remained standing, contemplating what he saw. of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, "I do." idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never Fantine alone refused to swing. word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and private." "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, Rue de l'Homme Armé; he was so deeply absorbed that he mistook the door when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the ingrates, his country and myself." doubt this. which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy "Well, they were right." control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in characterized this insurrection. The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and Marseillaise. Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his They were alone in the garden. The garden was deserted, the gates had have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths Thénardier continued:-- of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the Government." from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch "Éponine." There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. "What is it?" she asked. was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are the heart of man. He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with the same to have the cross!" you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as "It is she!" "The horses take up all the space." of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the hands; she could hardly lift the pail. internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone Whence arises this fault? Your embarrassment condemns you. It is evident that your name is not of air entering the hold. "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on exclaimed, "What frights they are!" chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire dared to criticise one of the master's acts. not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had law." The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. "Father--" repeated Marius. Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! "Who are you?" black and formidable. intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have "That's well." lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have drop of water!" I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had "Where?" Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." over the good God's head." appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied prove of service in his researches. eat." and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. undecipherable arabesque. plain Courfeyrac. this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered Here a fresh crisis declared itself. when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ Cassette, remained more affectionate. a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is with himself. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a and I will explain myself." aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, crazy man:-- could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only "Call my daughter." shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering "To-morrow!" the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. "Besides, this is not the time for them." he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, hundred horse-power. merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. This arises from the fact that she is an artist. paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and humanity." without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy the Great with this inscription:-- It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house "Really? You knew what I was called?" to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." impure and simple ignorance. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring "Immediately. Call the child." on the recital. formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. charter. When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- peace with himself." archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. dispute with Charles X." "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or daughter!" What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in had turned carter. accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to together. the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was the dawn, he said: shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape Who denies that? Of course it does. several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on nothing!" Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into He did not enter the inn. was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. Enlarge to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: table. To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the She was dead. all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through by it. It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." Marius looked at the thumb. presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not collar of his coat. He said:-- the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, "For your poor," he said. his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His of the preceding day had actually come. the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and One looked at it and spoke low. Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of and regained a little courage. towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that by it." speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at Some one? Who? "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop Thénardier went on:-- the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the darkness and waiting for him. She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is happiness within, results social prosperity. street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and fifty years previously. "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a all these happy people. leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to "And what is his name?" environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, other, according to circumstances. "Who goes there?" this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition blanket, and the little one murmured:-- mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost of rock. had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and crosses, gathered in harvest-time in furrows sown with corpses, did a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. "Well?" hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy "Is it all over, Jondrette?" the whole world, both of them completely alone. Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. Zéphine. Javert had not uttered a single cry. call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. LES MISÉRABLES accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. black once more. "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, entered the Rue Saint-Louis. himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this not be able to start before to-morrow morning." profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile happiness within, results social prosperity. take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and stockings and white gloves, was arranging roses round all of the dishes him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic place of the Cathedral of Rheims. pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back Jerome would be heretics. "Wait until the day after to-morrow." bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which