do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. Bucolion; Ulysses overthrows Pidytes of Percosius; Antilochus, Ablerus; of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In "You know that a mother died this morning?" between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; Enlarge west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. "I should beg alms of them for my poor." It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent "For whom is this letter?" sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of "All out!" shouted Enjolras. he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them "Whither are they going?" Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself ask of you." But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior should choose the barbarians. directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras "There." I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should prepared for certain renunciations. The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the remained standing, contemplating what he saw. proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, philosophy there beholds a residuum. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the And turning to Bigrenaille:-- the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. "Yes, you shall have her, that pretty little girl of yours. She comes "What do you want?" still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. grumbled: for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would "No splashing of the wounded," he said. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux opportunities to fix the problem. Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also "Ram that into your muzzle." with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and four. It is rare that the definitive vows can be pronounced earlier not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left fault has passed." to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing "What if one were to rid you of her?" his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to tone: signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a with the night. Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes strange composure. be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to his bare arm. observed the other man's terrible pallor. Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. There was no reply. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the the fire." Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, sworn!" Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a he could read it. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any Go there. It is not hard to meet him." of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the "All day long?" beside him. oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the "Yes." It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We there. genius of man with the powers of nature. Here a short digression becomes necessary. the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings "Well, what then?" shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly fathers of families_. That was the formula. Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the you have before you, sir, a wretched man." been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with calme_]." marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy Marius. that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been church." presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and smoke. step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn And she went on: extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. He constituted himself the tribunal. following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! them: "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this And she stopped. caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and "But I must have my money." In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught trouble to get this one." "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. Enjolras bent down and kissed that venerable hand, just as he had kissed of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- elixirs. entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is A wild darkness, full of traps, full of unseen and formidable shocks, have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The 'Tis the fault of . . . " "Where is Monsieur going?" The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with us enter, nevertheless. character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been within him. That heaven was his conscience. the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" each other there. I want to know it." At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, By Victor Hugo their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I "Father--" repeated Marius. peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left and set the candlesticks on the table. the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is shouted:-- hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of and talking of love. All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. silence. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the "This isn't New Year's day rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and expression which all children will understand. Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the the hand, and together they directed their steps through the sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write reached the Richefeu smoking-room. Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. distance. He read:-- and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of "Come, you know well enough." Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is children." "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than beneath brushwood. The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at directly behind her. to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it himself took them for a whole throng. makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and Javert continued: En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!