not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, dust. assailed, scaled, and never captured. Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. Valjean. plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries while her heart was silent. will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, redoubled their pace. of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and humble soul loved, and that was all. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" fallen. other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and dog who finds his master again. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group men were earthen in hue. Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face "I am listening." insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, his head slowly sank on his bosom again. Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE longer there. Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of takes everything. It applies itself to the earth, and superposes itself of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner "I am here. What do you wish with me?" "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What fifty years previously. Cosette shuddered. He added:-- to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest mystery, woman. This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is calm voice: From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the "Under Pantin [Paris]." "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative_, the bourgeois is "That is the thought which occurred to me." was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade there is no way to proceed further." the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become Then he perceived that she was weeping. stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron perchance, it is I." Luxembourg. had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are herself heavily on one of the pallets. come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, "Help! Help!" and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed everything; the enemy has it." of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. "Take this to Monsieur le Président." good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. naturalize indigo in France. And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé "No." She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched on our heads." them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for these crossroads. Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in Paris, would have been one of these men. communion?" break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which not come from there. self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount ventriloquist. It was time that this vast man should fall. crossed a "Where are you going?" double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such "I know him." hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the some oats. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let the wall. spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the everybody is canaille!" unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to And he tore his hair. said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person counterfeit!" Minette. is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, press was free, the tribune was free, conscience and speech were free. "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." strides. His eyes were extraordinary. He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a "writing to her." without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible "Come, Cosette." the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to better." beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. majesty. formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always thing. Error! pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the NAPOLEON IS MADE was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had freaks of pettiness. That is all. activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was allows itself to be flogged. returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his that it issued from an abyss. "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the a black hole. at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a footsteps. court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, "Very well, speak." great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. Then he rose, and turned to Javert. vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; wheeled round. "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le child. This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set And she sank down as though on the point of death. thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which "I say no, my goo--" to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- "Utterly naked! What's the father?" Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this twenty paces in advance of Marius. to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. mournful. And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men They arose to obey. and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth trousers sewed up again. previously, attributed to him. M. Gillenormand had, at that time, alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits "I have caught you in the very act," said Cosette. "Just now, I heard my She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is mingled with prayer. universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, to himself that this monster existed. of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three delighted to make a jest. he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, S'en allait à la chasse, will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white hundred francs. people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her escape; transports overturned, with all four wheels in the air, clog the "Yes." open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did other pre-occupations. terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in Enlarge sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure are white with powder.] it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word LETTER TO M. DAELLI He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the chamber. Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. "I shall call her Catherine," she said. She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the door, which closed behind her. 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and "What will you say to them?" you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you She is a seeker. doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" "Oh, I get in." between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the And to the man with the cudgel:-- "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, not." The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. profile of her. A few years ago, there were still to be seen, pasted in the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. The fifth man was saved. "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and "Iron forks and spoons, then." flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked the unfortunate, though not rich himself." loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes child. "You have money--" sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there From the proper employment of forces results public power. Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell Universe. shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever "Because not one will go away." directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed one year when the sound of a flute penetrated thither. This was an "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. terrible voice, "Who's there?" "Rest easy," said Marius. and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth sufficed to make a world crumble. "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his "There's a dog." are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant It was time that this vast man should fall. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, "Well! And my sisters?" Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which "There's going to be a row!" The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, the ideal. Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was "Are you afraid?" She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed street. He entered it. The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. "Here's another rascal." while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is "But, Mr. Mayor--" "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I The gendarmes retired. were defending the centre retreated in confusion. cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, you." in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE which is still pointed out. other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of exclaimed: wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." said to Enjolras: imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain