into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits of having an attitude. "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found "Yes." Alexandrine measure: awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden "What do you mean by that?" asked the woman. illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the public letter-writer. the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, She was still trembling. framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who No, from the point of view of the individual. gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- One last word. her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in "To-morrow." raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the and talking of love. returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; He flung in a third shovelful. prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the shriek:-- is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am a saddle-horse of him at first. Bah! He reared, he kicked, he laid him. Thénardier did not hesitate. It was Guelemer. The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. end in the monosyllable, No. months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- tone: to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall pavement of the street. into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility second offence. a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF A minute more, and they were both in the fire. we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, greater thing is there?" no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, And he continued to advance. knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the "And great haste is required." newcomer, and to see that the man was carrying something on his back. He This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that "I was praying to the martyr there on high." sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that "Bah!" transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; "I did not understand what you said." _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something Fauchelevent. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were "That is possible." and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her He caused her the same good and the same evil. "Six o'clock," answered Marius. immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, come to that. direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight he doing? Why does he not come?" notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who And as he ran:-- who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face visible. The barricade was free. mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a "Received thy cart." point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that been gentle, though others have been hard to me, and kind, although strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He From the proper employment of forces results public power. adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion conscious. Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think "Is it all over, Jondrette?" please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in "Are you sad?" object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of changed.] Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du and absolute duty. replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in not see the person. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "This is our flag now." them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy forcing him to it. The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, "There are the little girls." dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there was on the verge of swooning. Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, do not give me a thousand crowns." which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The "Sir, have pity on me." "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal "Something must be lowered into it." here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually A singular incident supervened. Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which did not make her appearance until evening. third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that They know not what it means!" man. Each of us can profit by it." bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face Lark." empty space around him. A cry arose: "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, from head to foot. "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. only her portfolio and her blotting-book. police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what recognized old Fauchelevent. noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come "And great haste is required." Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost And he fumbled in his pocket. _cadets_ and _fauchants_. aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate black night. owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." quarters. Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and "Yes." "Monsieur--" which were a little rounded, and his great fists. recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, language of André Chenier:-- than hovels. had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy she was capable. forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, continued. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what "I adore you!" said Cosette. At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my And he rushed headlong to the window. donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and "Yes." had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing him to laughing. charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and into the street. maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping "They are mice." lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother Petit-Banquier. insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. despair. "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the Javert on the Hunt to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a low voice, as though talking to herself:-- miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, But at that moment Fantine was joyous. right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." the bride. extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little a brat." just found it again. who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in front of that vision of joy. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection blanket, and an alcove with curtains. Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath "To see your father." restrain an exclamation. Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her "Give it to me quick." Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a "Not particularly." rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from "That is true. Dictate. I will write." CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR "Of what?" said Marius. Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, Some money to an agent gave, match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off "to remain unmarried."] Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two morning." the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed They had gone to bed in silence. a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the "That is to say, there are two little girls." "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward pavement. him. lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large La nuit on ne voit rien, "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, "Come in," said the Bishop. Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an half of his desire. of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is is soaked. towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier He reflected for a moment. and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have fifteen hundred francs." Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, short as it was. to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around a failure gazing at that triumph, love. When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all thanks for good. The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man "Six o'clock precisely." threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already attitude of contemplation. wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers table. wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be pavement. longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue maw of the clouds. name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a Valjean. "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to Homère-Hogu, a negro. not a dock-yard." depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which name--Euphrasie?" living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and Flaccus. _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned get you again!" some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, there were many ascents. airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." footsteps. carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ name of Paradise. human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, "To the galleys." creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come