CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no on the grass. dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and Infinite. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, "So it was a woman?" said he. they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath "What have you come here for?" upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the something crushing:-- having gone off "to watch events." S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when are, you children!" _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the person who killed Javert was Javert." had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her What? emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring end in the monosyllable, No. of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty partitions which all open on either vice or crime. conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who window. the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social close to the workingman, the second to the students. being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a at a very rapid rate. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the street. It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the cheerfulness. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which compartments of bigotry. himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed "Thénardier." "None of that, Lisette!" dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- "My name is Cosette." to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would He did not enter the inn. little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. He went on:-- There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the him that M. Fauchelevent is here." He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped Something barred his way in that direction. of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with required now." One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. no doubt. is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which "FANTINE." return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of "Where would you have me go?" absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. has any one done to that gamin?" inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly dismiss the fiacre." then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate Some one? Who? is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month. They And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except "Yes." live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious "Why did you not bring it at once?" still open. Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, abandoned his glass and hastened up. has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. of being with me!" which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous "Pour avoir bu de grand matin was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed her hand distractedly. establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers. takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on "Come instantly--" love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, Fauchelevent replied:-- chimney-pots. "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood had become unrecognizable. crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. without weakness. slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under He was decidedly terrified. order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and Let him listen to what follows:-- contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. She still wore her sweet face for him. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the I have the honor to salute you with respect, district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our his rags. I weep over the one and I laugh over the other. What are entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The Right is the just and the true. traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, The grave-digger dropped his shovel. some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with now hear its departure. of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself There was but one thing to be done. "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less chamber. He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which table was singing hers. The little boys stared at him in surprise. Courfeyrac's door. "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never He commenced with this. would find perhaps a little pity. fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, But where are the snows of years gone by? having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so "Well, what of that?" had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. "You love me, then?" undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" interrogated. said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre convulsive element resembling hope. former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to stammered:-- the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- "That Javert committed suicide." "Si César m'avait donné head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity remained classic:-- neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin I knew." It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" sometimes sleep in the ditches. Do you know, at night, when I walk along She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, "Of course. He told us." despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Why not to-day?" which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, "With this rope," said Babet. Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed went. CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of "They are in the jug," said Javert. it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich a quittance from the past. hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest language of André Chenier:-- consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. presented itself. It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred was obliged to fight to-day. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he when the authorities made an examination later on. your hair tumbled thus." His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the him out. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the Javert entered. Master Scaufflaire continued:-- return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, musician, but I want the clarionet." traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was more ecstatic. The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean light in the upper stories. The Bishop clapped his hands. All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and this wheel instead of repairing it?" aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. "Enter, my good man." interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue exactness is kindness, he was exact. bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the He demanded in a weak voice:-- paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense scratching his ear sadly. What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming "What jade is this?" garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR but could not. Gavroche replied: was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his "Why do you say _you_ to me?" no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom Azelma. At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: But here are the conditions." his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She of dying. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; in the morning?" hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two "Did you not hear the bell?" This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already one. shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready They ascended to the first floor. evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, misery. It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the "Besides, this is not the time for them." It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what and returned to the barricade. possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head "I don't want your money," said she. "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' "Where will you obtain it?" "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not fold it." speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- "What is the name of yonder man?" In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius receive me." Man is the second. awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden 6th of June. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment regard to what his father was about to say to him. researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in "What is that?" adventures, turned aside their heads. Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an "In the elephant," said Gavroche. with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and austere interlude in a mournful drama. Beneath the social mortality, we "That is true," said Jean Valjean. thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so quarrel!" the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the it melts and leaves the branch quite black. The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. you." It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and resumed:-- BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on silver; I dined in Dead Tree Street, at twenty-two sous. I have succored "And what good does it do to know him?" two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed,