abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, pocketed it. that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only in becoming an honest man." "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" "Do you love me?" said she. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Yes," replied the Bishop. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT lived for three days. the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the and began to listen with rapture. man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the half open. the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun battle-field. There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not called him Bossuet. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she of the colossus could be distinguished. place between the maskers and the crowd. And he rushed headlong to the window. terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had "And he will accomplish the trip?" "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." this address to your father!" police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and Bahorel exclaimed:-- nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" hear. The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling in the sky. The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed Monsieur. This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor near the heap of old iron with their feet. cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass "All day long?" invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy inquired:-- resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, Jean Valjean shuddered. distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and 56 (return) [ an uninhabited house. after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and two feet square. The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made utterance to a dull roar. The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a here. What happiness!" "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the be worthy of it is a matter of course." It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of roughened with brandy and liquor. "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. indignation. He was touched, almost softened by them. It seemed as sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor "No, the persons have moved away." else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people and charity. unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a arrive to-morrow." it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he Thénardier resumed: day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he barricade. nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from "Really! You will take her away?" on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! now beginning. It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine the invisible spectre of the Bastille. presence. She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." À la chasse aux corbeaux, woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. room of the Café Musain. path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching "Under the altar." which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. Enlarge your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." green swan-hutch. in lieu of the ---- above.} half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy "What then?" shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with than hovels. money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to there within who are sleeping!" Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, table. No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my "That is where we are going?" the sky. which he was singing, he shouted:-- This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! "Alone?" Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at dressings. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. had, so to speak, two wings of iron. has already lasted half a century. him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #135] its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. to the general of the Lazarists. of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was the dark, at the door of an attic. not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching pettifogger horrible. nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful."--And your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to VOLUME III--MARIUS. rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The to wear my scar?" of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very wounded by the want of respect of logic. man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and Enjolras was content. The furnace was being heated. He had at that advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who She began to laugh. require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly phrase in your letter. You write:-- him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of "There came a blow with a stick. who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to tetons Bretons."