first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his "Here are the two chairs." "I leave this very evening, aunt." Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. this question: of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound charming hour with which grand passions begin. cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd His confidence having increased, he added:-- his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes knees along the barricade!" "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. step, how black art thou! Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been he, the intruder, who interrogated. Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty gendarme." last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, "Where's your house?" All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges "He is not here." She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would Marius found himself alone. and he, he rattles in the death agony. advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there Sometimes he asked her:-- though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: "Take your revenge." and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. After a momentary hesitation:-- fashionable. certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow "My colleague," said the man. saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic of them, who were medical students, set about caring for the wounded. Enlarge is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the "Yes!" dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the opened it, and cried:-- cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his "Find it for me." "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. not come from there. Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which alone." by the fire. customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old Caius Gracchus. soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took "God--or the Devil." all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and "That is exactly so." the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? "No." now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A succession over her soul. The gendarmes retired. injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer is taking his departure. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there familiar. what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they reason for desiring that you should know who I am." The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, "I cannot." So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be succession over her soul. had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his damaged travellers on the highway. And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" him once. broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! "He is," said Enjolras. him, as to Cosette, a father. mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, had been there:-- and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on more." The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at with horror. "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. him. organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " plain Courfeyrac. repeated:-- requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. that is the example which nations need, that is the light which muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, "A young man who used to come here." He was lost in conjectures. It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family the heart of man. "Rue Mouffetard." personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was The Thénardier resumed:-- Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be which would fit the sou. beside this door, a manure-hole, some pickaxes, some shovels, some At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a gentleness. September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an something, and retraced his steps. "And your reason?" of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still sight of him. the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of "What is it?" she asked. not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which "That I wish to marry." all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between "Monsieur!--" said Marius. "This is the gentleman?" said she. certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite together. upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption "Under the altar." In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the Javert. If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. old spinster. sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the "How is that poor woman?" He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards "It is a pity." However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." then he returned. himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped in the most barefaced manner. cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would destiny, only by bending over more and more. the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of He recoiled and stammered:-- Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion "Finished!" They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays render a service to the one whom he loved. Cosette, that man is an angel!" himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of DISEMBARKING gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS Then he essayed a desperate effort. scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. "To the galleys." which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it hundred thousand francs with you!" little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who "Where does this diligence run?" He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, was told to Jean Valjean. the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a feelings. complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips And he added:-- the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of "Go away," said Jean Valjean. Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The And as Marius laid his hand on the handle of the door on his way out, Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the of the Mediterranean squadron. However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. It was Cosette sobbing. wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply She gazed fixedly at him. "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little forcing him to it. serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden l'Homme Armé, No. 7." "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. from Minerva turns to Pallas. skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. The rope which he had was too short. One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the utter them aloud. "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time them. obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are must not be seen with a woman like me." the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "I know what you want." encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, Hill, having been weakened, had come up to the support of Wellington; Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against was terrible. man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face It was very narrow. gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last celebration of love takes place. "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, "There is nothing there." pronounced by that child. intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. following is an exact facsimile:-- The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which "There is nothing there." "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became Planchette_. There he alighted, and the coach took Cosette back to the crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was The wig-maker turned pale. "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped "André Chénier!" dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. The old woman strained her lungs. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. have passed by. What were they? watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The She re-entered the lair. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and "'They are more fatigued than I.' "Hey?" said he. "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. "Here is a mattress!" Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the bier. barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, things like that, which are not common sense!" "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He