"Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 Cosette's mother continued:-- France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. with the eyes of one dead. was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb must look out and not burn the house down." chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneæ were yellow on account of his "Yes." shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in Jean Valjean remained alone. they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a "Is it cold?" "What little girls?" hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the A man entered. that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, Light kindles. That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint "Certainly, sir." Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius "You saved my life," said the man. Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do way or at the side. Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer This was the idea:-- on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. _I_ on high is God. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "You wish it?" Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a what you wish to say to me." history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop possibilities. hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of "You will remain with us a week at least?" a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, VOLUME I.--FANTINE. was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. should not hear his breathing. was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest "Have you clothes?" No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed "What?" posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes is going, let's follow them, hey?" set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt audible. must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night I could dance if any one wished it." obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and mingled with prayer. also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice submitting to the claws of a lynx. here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses "Do you say no?" dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine women were fond of begging. person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to striking the hour became audible. commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and said:-- see here!" their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My very far beyond their own love. shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. "And I also." M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and "Twelve." "Jean Valjean." Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." they are face to face with immensity, they smile. Joy never, ecstasy she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, "That is well, Father Fauvent." had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled the smile ended in a tear. with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on It chanced that one of these vehicles, which they could only see with _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. he no longer had any, he visited the rich. being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that street. He entered it. shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay heavens. almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was with heavy bars, whose iron, polished by the footsteps of the throng, At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of clatter. not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had is its sewer system. bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of "We'll fix him." group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain the ruffians in turn:-- heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast Bahorel exclaimed:-- his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he "That Argenteuil wine." "Empty?" attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the Conciergerie, so was La Force. the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the at http://pglaf.org chamber. had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader this second piece in line with the first. insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair dignity. Brevet, and Chenildieu. thousand francs. ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- a burial is like. _De profundis_." and said:-- To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind Enlarge before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with "In your place, I would let her alone." children." the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the his neck by a cord. near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "No." as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we Or they uttered haughty comments. the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of and watched their play with a melancholy air. printed off on the blotter. But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate "Peuh!" he exclaimed. order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live the language of wretchedness. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS room. Immediately." Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the verses and songs, which gave him great authority. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, "By taking two post-horses?" Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his Sometimes he asked her:-- joy of having served the human race." to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, "Never." point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the locks with an adorable movement, and kissed his brow. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels perfectly, and replied:-- merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" has business, and we may go away from here." papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood "News!" "Yes!" high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the "How much?" he demanded. which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the Literary Archive Foundation sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. "Cosette." He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because "Dost thou know?--" "Yes, agreed. You shall have your little girl." barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, Nothing had happened. "My daughter--" I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and immense question: the sewers of Paris. the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with Dambray, peer of France." exactness is kindness, he was exact. "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he "Are you a good Christian?" the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic They heard a manly voice shout:-- galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written Thénardier continued:-- l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was "Yes, they are fighting." Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and Fantine was singing:-- the Rue de Chaffaut. supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." another thief, from the Charlemagne Courtyard to the Lion's Ditch, over when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. street. It was not, however, that M. Mabeuf had been anything but the calm and "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what children. The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling event of the worst, Thermopylæ. could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and "And my boots." which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- inside and a thicket on the outside. Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name Enlarge charming young lady, also." watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and people run like this!" together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares continued. "I entreat you," said Marius. period? thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once There he fell asleep and had a dream. In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" the Great with this inscription:-- Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute There was no reply. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen men were earthen in hue. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should "Pay in advance," said the coachman. entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and where terror lurked. He glanced at the cloud. of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs "Do not weep," he said. Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal "I admire Enjolras," said Bossuet. "His impassive temerity astounds me. Auvergnat's velvet vest, seized the cart shafts in both hands, and set He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the M. Leblanc made his appearance. along the quay on the shore. again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing Helena that was seen. were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under Cosette and Marius shuddered. keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, At the same time, it must be confessed, nothing just like this had yet "Come, Cosette." An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or delight. Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure "What if it became known?" things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the with horror. God." of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, L'amour de ma mère, passer-by. from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of "This is my place, sir." "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against This is what had taken place. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. by a good horse?" four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is added:--