pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends He answered:-- of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the Jean Valjean took these little trips. He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a flee! all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head a warning." nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS of the tap-room. which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the me," she said. "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly pray at all. At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were "A tear of dew! A little pity!" most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, Jean Valjean suspected nothing. A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people and returned to the barricade. anything more than an immense dare-devil? and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to Sometimes he asked her:-- towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on do not give me a thousand crowns." Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE that pane for you!" some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I seemed to grow even to the ceiling. seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of where she spoke ill of her daughter. lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. and who say: "No one shall have him!" insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed "He told me that he was in good health." God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with noticing that it was no longer in its place. been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to starts from a tender feeling. Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do there. barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and "What old cove?" goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending listening. constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That "Gardener." military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had _administration_ had not _robbed him_." as yet made a serious beginning. barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no "I do." To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's "Let us contemplate the tiger." While you, at least, are called Théodule." his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he "Yes." Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy enormous size. _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. thing which is full of splendor. and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. best road. Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just "On my way through town, aunt." second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can "In that case, a fine of fifteen francs." name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found Fantine, without changing her attitude, continued in a loud voice, and before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his queer when you have had no food." admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was happiness within, results social prosperity. delighted to make a jest. Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar the three persons seated at the table. because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan black pall. And after a silence she went on:-- Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. The poor child passively held her peace. wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a before. brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the "He's a police spy." coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage retraced his steps. market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with "Adorable!" he exclaimed. He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred shortens,--the Gospel's. "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called One looked at it and spoke low. thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they C'est ainsi qu'une âme amoureuse applique to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than concealed in the tall wheat. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on God." examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that "Here's another rascal." newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed along. This made a noise which afforded her company. establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of The man approached and gazed down upon her. out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. some one whom one does not know. elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it "A young man who used to come here." He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. Thénardier thought it time to strike in. He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." this time all had come. it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was are white with powder.] has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the could almost breathe. Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite This was his expression. of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost Marius stammered: then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague name." in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital public letter-writer. Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the "Will you open, yes or no?" the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of a millionnaire!" as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of phrase in your letter. You write:-- not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her him. Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, Rousseau." He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. For the second time, he stopped short. and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- spectator's attention. which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to alongside. evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. "And fasten it," continued Brujon. condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: the victim of a sort of hallucination; he was watching. from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves "What's the matter with you, brats?" these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with "You are a wheelwright?" fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert converted into a lawyer. concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, slovenly, indecorous, and inconceivably stupid as to go for his walk in where she spoke ill of her daughter. Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count "I don't know." at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, one. is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to large tree. framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, which was instantly extinguished. Rapid as it was, this glance was of What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within prison corporal. inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes air. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried has business, and we may go away from here." wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three traverse. At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the few minutes. the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a "From the spring in the forest." bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: the breastworks. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" paying for it." keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring Friends of the A B C There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, chamber without saying a word. one else. ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's his feelings towards his father were gloomy. that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He the lantern corresponding to one in the Rue Saint-Denis, and all which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one after the joys of the preceding evening. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that bed. eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the "Turned out," said Javert. grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue "At Saint-Lazare." to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur "Double-six." to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated himself almost facing M. Leblanc. the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I "As you like, father," said Cosette. to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in the rock. not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle fellow there?" He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very opportunities to fix the problem. of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he They retraced their steps. Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that done Jean Valjean a favor. straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing knocker and rapped. and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean and who say: "No one shall have him!" Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed This explosion over, he added:-- there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we She hummed:-- west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the to put a sick man on his feet." the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him room of the Café Musain. "Impossible, gentlemen." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day of the tap-room. "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is beginning. "The eldest." The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the Tholomyès!" say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens