His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and "What are rats?" the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean on high the statue of a people. everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. was nothing to her. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way By thrusting his head over the wall, Marius could hear their remarks. It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- VOLUME III--MARIUS. "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his fist,--such was the attack. to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel paying for it." parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. "That is easy enough to say." habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never "What young 'un?" grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness The man opened his eyes in astonishment. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by Courfeyrac replied: The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines morning?" Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass his savage head. out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very "So you are sure that he will come?" comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the the truth about Louis Philippe. "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. "That's good," said he. francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. happiness. by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch one would have said that he saw some one. it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at windows of the third story. as they passed by. perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first expression which all children will understand. not be able to start before to-morrow morning." "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted And to the ventriloquist:-- windows of the third story. would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to "Father! What are those men in those carts?" turns up, underlined by an enormous tail. And that causes the death seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and "Sir?" he began again. have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their interesting." them. He resumed with solemnity:-- lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us garden." to read." The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to The Bishop resumed mildly:-- Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, of Fantine. The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my Don don don roughly by the collar. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his to unveil them suddenly at the last. attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a "Little one, you are the Queen of France." petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which traitor in order to succor it.27 attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He took advantage of the fire to cook them." his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he passion. His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, 7." least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks morning. Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the "You will remove your bell. It is not necessary that the sister at the is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both tilbury that I own." whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men open mouth still breathed. definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive iron." Etc. He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to Jacquot!" Jacquot!" new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the with that?] "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter was "an egoist." him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it unforeseen blow. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, elections. watered the whole garden. an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with talk any more." One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the The night grew more profound. undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it gratitude. of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was "Under the altar." captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition high; that is the only difference. trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, nothing!" of his day. point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and "Tie him to the leg of the bed," said he. On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM "This isn't New Year's day shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. But this good Clermont could not be eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her well, I will take you to it." of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the of that blood-drinker again!" his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door line. Then they set out again on the march. Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes more venerable possible. destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. His situation was indescribable. which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! smouldering there in a melancholy way. and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still at the lass." houses. the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have "Yes, sir." On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one over and over again. danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." grated windows of the dormitories, a torch ran along the ridge-pole of that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the "Enter, sir." and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" the person of Father Gillenormand. and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty and formidable brow of that child, from the depths of her homeliness, of he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and as "thou." "Hush! Thou knowest it!" He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies VOLUME II.--COSETTE "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The "That I must be dismissed." cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is "Why are they fighting?" depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which "What is it?" "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, in the mirror. He affirmed that man becomes magnetic like a needle, and would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop noise, which was sweet yet sad. "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold the coat . . ." will cover the coffin with the pall." jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: and I confine myself to that." Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in will pay as though I occupied a room." his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in the sister, timidly, "she would not know that Monsieur le Maire had "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there But at that moment Fantine was joyous. "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with "Would you like my hat?" cried a voice on the threshold. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; added:-- character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT She is a seeker. it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees entered the Rue Plumet. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could to sing: of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." "How so?" of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The the waistcoat across his breast. belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many made an imperceptible sign to the tavern-keeper. The tavern-keeper went perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." "That is well." has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, "What young 'un?" mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him lower part of the body from injury. attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. little sister did not stir. Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this resources are lacking him to the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, This only caused an increase of his stupor. "It was your play, I believe?" she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. francs. portress. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece What Marius now beheld was a hovel. seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead to others may not be received in law . . ." the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their best road. in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These police, then?" The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying Gavroche began to laugh. to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. "We are going to fling the government to the earth." "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, the wounds themselves. no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of old-clothes broker at the Temple. Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. well, I will take you to it." because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, of his soul. sobriquet!" guards a secret like a child. stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the "Where are we going?" uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going man's self-sufficiency. raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, returning home, hardly saw him. Each one for himself in times of peril. When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. The gendarmes retired. "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the "My colleague," said the man. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed This hovel was only one story high. heart. He stammered:-- Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking together they buried the empty coffin. tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses