a look which disturbed Cosette. over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses "But how will you manage to breathe?" only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of "What act?" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by Enjolras:-- "Bitch!" The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, "God will inspire us," said he. Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, "To be free," said Combeferre. like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste reached the Richefeu smoking-room. commonly supposed. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST from father to son. "Well?" in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from to unveil them suddenly at the last. He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he sphinx. Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, daylight. one takes a lancer. intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of infirmities of ideal passions! The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in He paused, and then resumed:-- "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other movement, like a person who is just waking up. a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said now hear its departure. wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were "The plate is quite full." gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call Marius did not understand: "A pupil." enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine "What do you mean to say?" The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on were not made--" horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by He was dead. to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty eyes were still closed. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home It was already done. In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all wrung their hands; the waves for the first, the grave for the last; here paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the "In your place, I would let her alone." would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- And she sank down as though on the point of death. hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Fauchelevent bowed again. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was "How many are there of them?" better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; "What will you give me?" halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If "Well, then, laugh." He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, "What if one were to rid you of her?" reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event "That is well." had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With table. galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own in it. Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful "In the elephant," said Gavroche. the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. come to see my ancestors." speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his is taking his departure. again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if that case it skimmed the streets. very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for "And in the meanwhile?" "No objections." frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and "I adore you!" said Cosette. he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth Nothing had happened. economy in illumination. walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this gloom. bier. To No there is only one reply, Yes. be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to "Go," said Jean Valjean. habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the "This is the place," said one of them. Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention sufficed to make a world crumble. "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in Marius' brow grew more and more severe: "So do we." their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society They were two really pretty little girls, more bourgeois than peasant shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will time the poor were dying of hunger. post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the night. in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none useful." more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the A child's voice said:-- good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame the stars. "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes when she said to Jean Valjean:-- about the country-side, and caused great consternation. chamber when Toussaint had said: WAR breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that had a round hat. their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the dictate:-- Then he exclaimed:-- formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, "Yes, sir." "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean existence. authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was "It is he." of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The of the clouds of heaven. One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed become of it." you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, "Immediately," replied the landlord. threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the the four lines which follow:-- "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Copyright 1887 now it reappeared. are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He violent. bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Six stout horses drew a coach. more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. "That's well." thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us called _Madame la Colonelle_. And who, with gentle hands, do clear "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'