in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself of the English camp were audible. even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live he should arrive after all was over. But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. "The empty one?" He hastened in that direction. bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the Azelma. "That was what I said to myself." and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg profoundly. leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the acclamations. be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to holds, suicide or crime. regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the was heard to open and shut again. The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to Verrerie, No. 16." cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these "Yes." themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, Cosette. monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of that blood-drinker again!" Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you Tenth; all is going well!" in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand having gone off "to watch events." mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He and shouting:-- been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and one could understand one's position in the city; above the "Oh! That's not all." In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, humanity." upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his him, possibly. But the beginning was savage. A tempest, more furious kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, had not cut the bonds of his left leg. hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands peep through the ogress at times, in a very queer way, the idea would Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. on a run. CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in Enlarge shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice audible in the corridor. Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My him. Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and Or a miller would call out:-- came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; "I did not understand what you said." "Feel how cold I am," said she. for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the Enlarge There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. spectator's attention. them." in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE Government." years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very hands; she could hardly lift the pail. undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did the wall is much in use in Paris. stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. breakfasting with us, being my father." Jérôme against Hougomont; the divisions of Foy, Guilleminot, and Bachelu Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for as an infraction of the rules. populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries And he hastened to add:-- trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that These were this man's first words:-- gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. found to be provided with a better light than man. ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the exclaimed, "What frights they are!" been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger misery. simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone cells which we have already mentioned. set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving white. The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings "You have knocked at all doors?" A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant on these wounds. In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the I have the honor to salute you with respect, accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had Total . . . . . . 23 francs. l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to "Not so close, my good man!" said she. Gavroche replied:-- ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an "What card?" This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This "No." bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently sixty thousand dead. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." the bottom of it. hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only horror. certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the And, with a poignant accent, he added: "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion to himself that this monster existed. order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what "Father!" CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some subsists. to be looking on. Not a man in the group stirred. bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not vocal mother:-- The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents "Climb up and go in." with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH He finished her thought. And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; say." which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does The beggars. who was a thinker. Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow "What?" a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" important things. They had told each other everything except everything. his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes "Lay down your arms!" "No." We'll go and have a drink together presently." thousand crowns." Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." table. _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; "Enter, sir," she said. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. "We are quite near the house." closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her After a momentary hesitation:-- Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index cartridges left in the barricade." "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur He paused, and then said:-- limped a little:-- chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, explain it. He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the "Hey?" passed over me. I am about to plunge into the night without even seeing of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the added:-- state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable offered his breast. to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. "I know him." it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an "Well, I request one." as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, mother, but I have claws like a woman." "Grub away." "Will you take yourself off!" precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is terrible voice, "Who's there?" There came two taps at the door. a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided. A grave military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together "He is dead." "But you alone should hear it--" He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the any need of their knowing. Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; M. Leblanc took the pen. debouched from the forest of Paris, Plancenoit was in flames, and the the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in "It was mine." were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that "Have you your card?" for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, less steep. prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and did you bring so many; they were not needed." daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her himself to it," etc., etc. his daughter with him, no doubt. regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of star. stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in of Fantine. the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and rehabilitation of Napoleon. He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away alive; he was bringing back the child dead." "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she the barricade would have been taken. expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though