The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. guilty of the fault of going straight. rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists To Monsieur To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, "I am entirely devoted to the convent." must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I aunt.'" carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de A terrible situation! to be touched. Perpétue and Sister Simplice. sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, "Certainly." unfolding this paper. supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, The incomplete times in which we live. man the Bishop of D---- was. M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. "I. Since I tell you so." foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in "I have no money to buy any dinner." obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed there. Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne Enlarge was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed An illogical act on Voltaire's part, we may remark, by the way; for At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting I who have pointed him out to her." severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing Simplice remained alone with them. When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of harness over. "Because I love statesmen." which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his one quite close to him say:-- emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this Then throwing down the pen:-- the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, The Bishop turned to the man. you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with was obliged to fight to-day. of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by "I am an agent of the authorities." affair of passion!" events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as their trousers. council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. "She did not say." Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. breath. We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but boots, you five-louis jade." pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant them." "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at francs and ninety-five centibes." backs turned to these two. Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, "That little fellow." the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of said in a harsh voice:-- road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy daylight habitually illumined his soul. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal continued:-- had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, study. "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound charming, happy face. charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was "Here; this is for you." with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and "Really? You knew what I was called?" ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the the Tiber.] the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than and as bold as fire." door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, amounts to nothing. "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at consent. We will drink. After work, never before." "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. and driving back, a system of elementary drainage, simple as the lungs "What are you doing here?" in compliance with any particular paper edition. "To Arras." illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the them on the table in the guise of candles?" Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally barely audible breath:-- slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since existed, they would have been invented there. delighted to make a jest. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, that shop of the Changer. sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon away a cloud. In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly have I done?" not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the "You have changed yours, surely." "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, fallen. public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." of the jury will form their own opinion." "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" alongside. Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these children. against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. Language: English "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was adventure. "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the caused him to turn all his researches in the direction of the Cul-de-Sac permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. It was the old woman's little boy. that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be "None of that, Lisette!" with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained on the spot." the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account spoons?" it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a The man who was knocking paused. the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will He raised his head and recognized Éponine. had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but "By taking two post-horses?" thief because he is known to be a convict." circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of id="linknoteref-44">44 CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still gold napoleon apiece for them." What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." wherever I am." scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about was received at D---- "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, strange for such services, honorable manners. "Excellent." scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the Then a sergeant shouted: _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad "All out!" shouted Enjolras. ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. Then he added:-- folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to francs. The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order mysterious explanation. quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in "Monsieur Mabeuf!" almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained the same to have the cross!" still open. Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man Four new travellers had arrived. Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, Gavroche said to the two children:-- five-story building which separated the two court-yards. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. immense question: the sewers of Paris. less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school He said, "No, Madame." to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a on. ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for "FANTINE." with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most "Here is something for your trouble." BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW Grelotte, Lolotte! straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "You will remain with us a week at least?" Merry." had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he accompanied these words. Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also herself that she must know what it contained. And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt "He was a convict." words:-- woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. domain eBooks. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, "You are he!" said Enjolras. imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines "What church?" Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities trembling voice:-- broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, Gavroche recognized him. flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis Here the rag-picker interposed:-- With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by _To make reparation_ is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed. Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and spot. serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, strange composure. wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon doors well_. own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. "Has moved away," replied the porter. their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond though they had known beforehand where that figure was. silver wire and orange flowers. "I do." took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, before her in desperation. "What church?" "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room stood. A bishop who understands how to become an archbishop, an archbishop who her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his "Your health, Claquesous." slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. our midst without our being aware of the fact, and who disappear without was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does the order of battle. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the it back in its case. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the says: "Phew!" "Immediately," replied the landlord. reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber "Father! What are those men in those carts?" _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which replying:-- The Thénardier took down the whip. very poor young man who was called M. Marius. draughts, as there are under the bridges." blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite not at all! Rabble!" of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. The gendarmes retired. I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and