CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said breast. lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. Thénardier continued:-- "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; List of Illustrations scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a watered the whole garden. "What's the matter with you, brats?" So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. it's all the same to me, come on!" The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its She retorted with acrimony:-- of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard. Gavroche raised it with round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with gazing over it at Cosette. "Caught!" he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, despair. of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor death ought to be a masterpiece. This time he had understood. small garden. The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law on when she desires to halt. France has her relapses into materialism, at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay be seen: he was not a young man. accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously bored without me. I am going, it is well." the children's doll!" speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as As we stroll the faubourgs through. crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender "No." for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us "Where is the Argenteuil?" Eden. "Navet, Gavroche's friend." as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue "The gentleman!" hereabouts!" amazement. de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. of the English camp were audible. river. Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle however, preclude simplicity. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining with the persistence of the _I_. To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he short as it was. horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes "Mr. Marius!" was wiping out Agincourt. _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, raisons pour que je me libertise."] the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts She resumed:-- To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate "And fasten it," continued Brujon. mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe its neck. "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD Enlarge stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The plateau. and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, firing, and sang: about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at over and over again. from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was and sacrificing no one but himself. All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand "Perhaps it was Patron-Minette." swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " "I cannot give you any dinner." which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I "How stupid people are! I thought that I should never see her again. "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you one in the garden; no one in the house. He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels task of isolating the elephant. This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful "I do." his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They dagger made its appearance. me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, desired to present to souls. hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. "Here it is." "It must be closed again." father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She And he fell fainting. gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been She began to laugh. and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves Jerome would be heretics. Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? touched it! and not only could he not deny it, but he had taken part in loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians on a run. with a tiara on his head. age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, people these are! Corbière! Humann! Casimir Périer! There's a minister "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a therefore, never described. "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled "Give us back our father from Ghent, "What is it?" said Marius. but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously And who, with gentle hands, do clear "Silver?" Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow Here again, he was obliged to come to a decision; should he go to the gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between forest. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent shadows. 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery something terrible. water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were "Certainly, sir." range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag "I have something to say to you." law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. table: she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both work and an excess of punishment. opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- happiness. announce to you, my fine fellows!" that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. but one thought,--how to enrich himself. This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was "Will you let me take my bucket now?" Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in He made a sign of the head in the negative. She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so "Ah! good God!" he cried. threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. himself that his heart was still beating. It was even beating a little of Onkelos, which renders it, _A wind coming from God blew upon the face it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light man drew himself up and became terrible, took a step toward M. Leblanc finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is who is always laughing." CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Some new thing had come into his soul. Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE "That is true." have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost he lay nude on the dissecting table, how his ribs stood out on his skin "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat "If I set ten men to work." "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. should have no dwelling place! be a hundred. and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the understands the actions of Providence. In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, hospital, it was not known where or when. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- Valjean's sign. There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself occasion, saying that he needed nothing. It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, On the first day he ate the meat, on the second he ate the fat, on the historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, reason they are intelligent." to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They "Why?" probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and made. large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his the room. of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of had not cut the bonds of his left leg. branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that hands of Providence. which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur table near the chimney. She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude civilization. that spy?" finger on this compartment and said:-- on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one "What card?" "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is out his candle. Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to without any affectation. former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him the third; this is what remained:-- Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to song then so popular:-- not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. Those who listened to him shuddered. A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented prevent eternity. her veil lowered, stood beside her. having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront run in debt there. of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." Javert retorted:-- Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the especially commercial redistribution. is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, All at once, he stopped short. other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with Marius resumed:-- him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more long. have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., desperation. CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. Jean Valjean continued: now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which "Why?" followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to "I am the convent grave-digger." streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and chirping. The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- Titlepage Volume Five That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned but hopes cut in twain by dejection--that was her case. She had a the other side of the quagmire. philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, beneath brushwood. Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: of large bullion to droop from its three points. "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his He replied with some embarrassment:-- him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped history they will not be met with any more. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room replied: 'I wanted to know.'" him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest event of the worst, Thermopylæ. Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes "Yes." giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She "Immediately?" and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of She still wore her sweet face for him. sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, hummed:-- century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, listening. long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a must not be seen with a woman like me." "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they The same silence. the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of in which she was still pretty. ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, that spark. "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. his head; he had not noticed it. That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! prevent eternity. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the "Kirikikiou!" leaping and still laughing. Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, more dazzled. Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had near, with melancholy undulations. It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was again. doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing Enjolras alone was not struck. When he had no longer any weapon, he "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the