"Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with "Well?" said Cosette. reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which details. He went on:-- "What man?" There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool useful." gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. VOLUME I.--FANTINE. should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred He went on:-- calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH Marius' brow grew more and more severe: window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of vision. The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and glanced around the room in a sort of terror. phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are does not prevent them from being of use. west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real Then he began to stare into the air again. Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. old man's. All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique "Not even of you, father!" kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members "Yes," said the man. he sprang from the earth. stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: love him. thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the their trousers. bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is in which she was still pretty. him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God "A request." The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same livres that I allow you?" he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing troops were re-loading their arms. All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity "I love you!" said Marius. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely certain information in a certain district about a family which had items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring "I have found out." as in fleurs de lys." Baptistine gazed mildly at him. He continued: will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One white." It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and exclaimed: line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the thee!" who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and the smile ended in a tear. But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make She went on:-- And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy "I know it." With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of wished to caress and thank it. woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description Force. me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I wrote:-- which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His "You know that a mother died this morning?" fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death under their coverlet. had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." and I confine myself to that." to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good for the flies which his dog eats!" was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." the guard-room into the gutter. These insults, poured forth in a voice he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns Enjolras: "What fine marble!" soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his "What will you eat?" "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude district. in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come room of the Café Musain. door, which closed behind her. parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is slime instead of the strand, sulfuretted hydrogen in place of the were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows had brought it into port at Toulon. "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with "writing to her." eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings iron." Etc. understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and "Do not weep," he said. He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, francs." the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it unprecedented one to him. him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident "And to him also." same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver at your trade of lawyer?" was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might said to her, "Follow me!" such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric "Cosette." has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier. Those are the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound "Well, what then?" without. If he has no doctor he will die." The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim and limpid, and offers no obscurity. Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is cloaks, Little Gavroche, who was always shivering gayly under his rags, "No," said he. they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people in my carpet-bag." soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of "That was what I said to myself." BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, must give air to the English army." his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, would not let it to you!" slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. years old at that time. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the The entrance to this public house, which is also a sort of an inn, is by "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where Alexandrine measure: took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; how to get in. the candle which was burning there. Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a guards a secret like a child. Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one They searched him. occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a "Thénardier." There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon there is your shadow with the round hat." reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest "I'm hired." "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, people would see. mother paid the fifteen francs. sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible "Well, I request one." particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled "Admit him," he said. Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their Trappe replies to Horace. like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme of the eleven thousand devils." The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words heard frightful sobs. street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar passed in front of his face. that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to the song by killing the singer. They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall become more and more patriotic for humanity. shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. maw; the other a mask. coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening the great cavern of evil. arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there hung himself.] of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle "Certainly." avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. need to ask permission." knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to remarkable inscription:-- have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field the trouble of the world!" "You will do it as speedily as possible." adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and before." Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, that makes you cough." being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took same! But how do you come here?" his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a the wine-shop noticed it. and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she M. Leblanc let them take their own course. You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented the half-open door, visible only to his wife. Et qu'il me fallait quitter convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast Enlarge "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have his labors too soon. nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I that you are not!" matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of Then he made the military salute. earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more "Pewter has an odor." dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. thing in strict accordance with the text. Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for "It must be, said a warrior." only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in on their way to the right bank. gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or recognition of the prisoner. by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great What was to become of Marius? himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You was the dungeon. With the stones which remained they stopped up the to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. their ease." persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT of Paradise. Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its