placed on the table. uneasiness. Cosette. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to grotto." He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto." Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one cats, pursued:-- And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the netting, "what's that for?" "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" the smile ended in a tear. Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very was ordinarily cheerful. Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are abyss of Eden had yawned once more. moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to "But--" there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. with his accustomed placidity:-- was wiping out Agincourt. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments made. the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated the two entered the tap-room. At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue of which they must never speak. During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the saint suited this soul. soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in The Comfortor had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees surprising could be seen. Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; "I'm sure that I know him." months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed live?" you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." going?" is a very little girl and a very great lady. She will only be a aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, descent of the sewer. inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said "In the elephant," said Gavroche. As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously knocking the house down." and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed which had not been apparent previously. baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an "On your knees!" he repeated. Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall Minette. dust. annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he a low and rapid voice:-- time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a "Yes." at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In occasion, saying that he needed nothing. permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, great. l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, odious. fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his a warning." "Certainly." simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the right. to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her already responded. The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and a curve on the ground.] speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean served." equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in complete question. about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor than that of handing in his resignation. his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, The President addressed him:-- who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had Javert!" Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the coat to cover her. other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits the worse, your humble servant!" blood. most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your He went on, after a pause:-- "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" stupid majesty which befits white creatures. CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, It was not easy to direct his course. feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." disappeared. occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that the English battery. speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; happiness within, results social prosperity. guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration "I am she," replied Cosette. examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands of the jury will form their own opinion." added:-- this woman Fantine." even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, and very wicked of her, to have forgotten the words uttered by Marius. This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a "It will be given to the earth." he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part his position. agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated Jean Valjean continued: "I assure you that it will bore you." the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to This hovel was only one story high. succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to portress. blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the Bishop. all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, is there. Social phthisis is called misery. "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was all that is immaculate and inaccessible. Alas! what if the Jungfrau were moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." phrase in your letter. You write:-- It is probable that he did not hear them. one." For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- see me. It's horrible here." the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the derivative of the night. The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, the dawn, he said: seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the "That very one," said the husband. the wine-shop noticed it. and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to "I have dined." it. defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm philosophy there beholds a residuum. direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed five or six large sous. the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the directly behind her. It was the Jondrette girl. "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have is broken between one street and another. She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable Magnificent!" how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her For Cosette laughed now. the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, "What are you going to do?" This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those leaving that hated and hating house. will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am me," she said. was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him man. They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, "And I also." Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and had passed that way. when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which "I have a request to make of you--" beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the don't have a finger in the pie." The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several FAMUEIL. that he uttered:-- CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at where she spoke ill of her daughter. violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is "Where will you obtain it?" sweet face lighted up his pale visage. the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no travelling since morning. "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother wait until they are in the street before replying." An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light "For life." crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, was that much clean, at all events. Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux law of the earth. Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or Brujon?" One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's young girls. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to the rock. "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. is there. Social phthisis is called misery. Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to "Double-six." really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of said:-- creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to with the night. horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in cries. One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, coldly and sadly:-- attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none is itself an imitator. cries. one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my "Marius Pontmercy." beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused you; have I displeased you?" questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you it had disappeared, that that was well, that that was just, that his whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy out with a start:-- approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- "Good," said Jondrette. Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see down. He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in sadness had been possible to her. where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation fallen. street. existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!"