accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its "A request." at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." safety. their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, of that king, anointment meant the galleys. "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the "And fasten it," continued Brujon. dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" Avait marié, dans notre heureux couple, the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before "There is some one who wants to speak with you." The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without understood. gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left He turned round. creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's "Gold; here it is." been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one spectres. bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. woman. him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take seem to me to be ill." mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to right." he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the "It is settled, reverend Mother." which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible We have just seen him at Montfermeil. CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT there; the girl had disappeared. heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The him from his lethargy. This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is "Shut your peepers!" silver wire and orange flowers. fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was and the large tears in his eyes. That man, who had so manly an air, yet apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the other pre-occupations. "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of descend the staircase rapidly. morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths "That it is very cold?" was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by four. chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on at a time. These men watched me pass. her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is "Still no?" They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with a black hole. lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and pass it before it is shut." to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he rehabilitation of Napoleon. body, her prayers and her toilet. Marius broke the silence. As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters And, from the threshold, he added: They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus "You have two pretty children, Madame." of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the chimney-pots. Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in God." little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. "You do not belong in these parts?" Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned "That Javert committed suicide." they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared The reader will recall them: not close his eyes all night. interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were stuffs did not detract from the coquetry of arrangement. There was a of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, in his diocese during the Hundred Days. The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance "Who won the battle?" with Cosette's handwriting. CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT "You will remain with us a week at least?" legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, title of either colonel or baron. It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of "Then I understand the girl is rich?" The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. "I will pay." As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, your living, do you hear?" five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- the other?" presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you this question: life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his "What have you come here for?" sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's will perform miracles." it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED "Go in, nevertheless." CARPES HO GRAS. Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare IENA crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the Jean Valjean had not another word to say. "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over middle of the room, and said:-- stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he It was She! houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible with the skeleton of the staircase, climbing up the walls, clinging to Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued auroral light in the form of a woman. nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say trace of that hideous vision remained. Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. There are instincts for all the encounters of life. everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" "Then this child is not yours?" demanded the man. caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- over the good God's head." to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The voice:-- assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not of the twilight. He proceeded thither. workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had on her pillow. count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. into the street. friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly prove itself a revolution or a skirmish. The Government understood this royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, Awakened effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am "Enter my wine-shop." The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my come and presented itself to him of its own accord. what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and the watch. neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against man." "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer The government was there purely and simply called in question. There Bruneseau. these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and fathers of families_. That was the formula. "My hands are benumbed." check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- most deadly insult. broken. authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of "Yes." then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire that our intentions are not evil." water-carrier that it is." "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. "Give it to me all the same." special activity of the last thirty years, was no less than sixty This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily would not quit your family to go and see a creature." Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of They searched him. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost leagues." dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le the trees, were resplendent. tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" of Saint-Marceau. "I do not wish to disturb the court further," resumed Jean Valjean. "I outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" banishes winter from the human countenance. barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, "No," said the priest. contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem gold napoleon apiece for them." seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous "Yes," replied the mother. times. Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied "That is true," said Théodule. taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and significant and bitter about it. "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish Christopher Columbus. before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the cudgel. freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the Then he raised his voice:-- witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at three times rapidly without uttering a word. and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being The reader will recall them: would find perhaps a little pity. meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the warrior picks up his buckler. palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four over. the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the "That it may rain?" M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by "I deny it." Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the the meantime, so that it shall not run away." mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from "No, sir." he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a "Have not you an intimate friend?" who guard it._ sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " to him. All is explained. You understand." On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on "Who are you?" mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe princes. I am only a poor peasant bishop."_ Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. auroral light in the form of a woman. thread.' There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he "Yes." spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French "Catch hold of it." have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in manure, on the other hand, is gold. irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the