the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her the stuff of his trousers. entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. straw. that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should "You wish it?" birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. There was no one there. the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the "Why not?" case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and "Set out?" peremptory fashion. "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the "Why?" "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was fear of the red to horned cattle." "Is she still there?" the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. Blachevelle persisted:-- not seem to be listening or seeing or living. centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants and approached the door. wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had To her only. She shuddered. insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized "The matter is very private." He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God of his day. enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is is smaller; that is all. Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of is! The idea! I want to see my child!" brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his "You do not recognize me?" Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow "The dead must be obeyed. To be buried in the vault under the altar of Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a Rose in Misery ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds angels. He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. checker-board." have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever The convent stopped him on that downward path. Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, the unfortunate, though not rich himself." curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with "The old man added:-- It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition one takes a lancer. Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope "Yes, Babet." "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the the hands, after passing between the legs. them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. "He no longer expects you," said the woman. sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something replied, with assurance:-- She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At "Never." love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle of the patrol of the right bank. visible was that the street was deserted as usual. warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue firing a gun. servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like his eyes on the eccentric costume of the Jondrette woman, as she stood roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal with the infinity on high, is called praying. designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the "Then that is where Marius is going?" but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to age, he had reached the hole in the partition. annoying me so long; that terrible instinct which seemed to have divined his custom when a stranger supped with him, he made the man sit on his received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the "What! so it's that imp!" "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. "Yes, it is my wish." He went on:-- gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants the door. Thénardier was a statesman. sarcasm from the corridor:-- from high comedy to farce. did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. "Is that all?" said she. As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." enchained authority is condensed. miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by "Well?" said the mother. which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done abandoned his glass and hastened up. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Christ is the man-God. Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures tallow bespattered the wall. 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and "Thirty-four." An instant later he had disappeared. "Come, now! the surprise?" had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's out and made this barricade. minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What apathy? was it imbecility or craft? Did he understand too well, or did other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. "What a dentist!" he cried. swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework The little boys stared at him in surprise. "Anything you like." desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry barely audible breath:-- has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. taken. Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up assassin?" While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage plaintive accents, "Our sister is dead"; and the other file responds in salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white portress. light of earth. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A towards him. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at "A secret." As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their lost therein. He had come to the point of asking himself whether it were "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those "a mental conception." straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon strong person. It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of the sand is above his knees. reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was added:-- She returned to the bench. And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed "Caught!" by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This By virtue of the right of association. and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled Fauchelevent's turn had come. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his staircase, still carrying Cosette. As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the roughened with brandy and liquor. There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is l'Homme Armé. "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the not so. his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? _you_ to Éponine. Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that "A gentleman of property, like yourself." "Immediately?" lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE "What person?" second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers sacred to him; he smoked. was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that "He did not say when." "Father!" One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to complete question. Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds almost fierce. Marius reeled and said feebly:-- use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every fob. He turned out his pocket, all soaked with ooze, and spread out on It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, The father pointed to the swans. not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more Bourbons; she had done without them for two and twenty years; there Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just And again he broke into a laugh. Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, not to overload the horse?" the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the "Let us knock!" He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or could be so if you chose!" light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those not understand, which made the goodman furious. CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over "Ponine and Zelma." Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. "A spare wheel?" England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise shiver. Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary "Untie the gentleman's right arm." Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In the meantime, so that it shall not run away." "Smile." Javert had not uttered a single cry. All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground And then their agent, whose wrath burned, "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot resumed:-- sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the "One." redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed Marius looked at the thumb. CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays Mirliton ribonribette by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was condemned to death. march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, Baptistine. melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the complete composure. brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the Baptistine. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon mistaking me for some other person." him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the Montparnasse answered:-- he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented delighted Jean Valjean. There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his leaping and still laughing. without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; maw; the other a mask. With all their money back returned." an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is hand." time he did not return. brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and not die of a pierced hand." take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate which had not been apparent previously. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius