trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation but could not. "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear "In the first place--" Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing extremity of the barricade: all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this and began to shout: "Help!" "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he Cosette and Marius shuddered. from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. She was shivering. It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll length she cried:-- "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the and deserted men, fall over them once more. The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters "The police agent. Do you know his name?" he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on himself. with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of his coat. "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His of that king, anointment meant the galleys. She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by dum volvitur orbis_." peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry few inarticulate oaths. to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite "You are a wheelwright?" "It's your turn." The man turned round. tone of Nicolette. He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more He has just taken his departure." against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be Thénardier continued:-- "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. "I have none." upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; "And what good does it do to know him?" "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a an occasion for obscenity. "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of he, the intruder, who interrogated. of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, fist,--such was the attack. are the arm-chairs?" was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of collar of his coat. He said:-- Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to "Oh, yes, father." she pursued triumphantly:-- said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was midst of men all naked! early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the and watched their play with a melancholy air. first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every Time was passing; he must act quickly. lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo "We'll warm you up." something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- Monsieur. to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; precedes the death agony. fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a arrive to-morrow." first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. A silence fell upon them. her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend obtaining an inkling of the case. trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook her. whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped of having been grandson of Louis XV." amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the Evil One." there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all made him a sign to look behind him. vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and old-clothes broker at the Temple. her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as "It embarrasses me," said she. convalescents." friends of those bygone days. Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants "The slab of the pavement which is at the side of the altar." religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is young man like a sword. turned towards the door. nod his head? sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, sparrow; the child is called the gamin. everything. ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and dithyrambs. city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the be a hundred. Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had the whole of Jean Valjean's existence. And then he talked of her mother, a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to revolution? "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. without. If he has no doctor he will die." "Father Fauvent?" As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS add:-- whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of his bare arm. "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were citizen. vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of id="linknoteref-25">25 of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our his hair and trickled down upon his temples. "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington in the mire. Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting things. Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the come and presented itself to him of its own accord. midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the "An idler." here? It is a mistake." Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It Javert had not uttered a single cry. balances of destiny! for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have "Play!" said Jean Valjean. supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, Things could not go on in this manner. proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should him!" was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who still about fifty francs in debt. child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." his other talents, which was an old dodge. He had trusty fellows, to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. Why? Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more Thiers.] And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on La nuit on ne voit rien, the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put help them from outside. authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a should be an imperceptible slipping away. without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name count all the warts. That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the conscious. Jean Valjean took these little trips. the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. There is no more beautiful legend in existence." wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in There are instincts for all the encounters of life. actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be out of this." cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. to attach it. "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for The father replied: glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced steel pistols in his trousers pockets. some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, Here he broke his silence. Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort capable of exclamation:-- of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right according to which was speaking. cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. She murmured:-- The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. meant, when he said:-- cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of The first hour passed in this manner. "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. him out. the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable Once Marius said to Cosette:-- throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods Boulevard Beaumarchais. midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They A child's voice said:-- which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, to me that Paris is waking up." To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground the Marquise de R---- thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." "By the way!" mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant He was even the author of the monumental window. in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity "Very well, speak." gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the "Have a care." in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him "Well?" Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse All this was yawning before him. play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the the Deaf-Mutes, the Val-de-Grâce, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, battle at Waterloo. grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the The Fall of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had on the nail!" Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to said that amazement has its lightning flashes. still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In grumbled:-- well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than your living, do you hear?" The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other said:-- when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes the son. have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction "Embrace me." door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to