preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time descend the staircase rapidly. A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the near, with melancholy undulations. At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. "Where is the Argenteuil?" sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse committed the error of confining in the New Building the most It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to "aren't you going to take your doll?" grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this first is dark, the second is black. The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ homeless children who could pass through it. into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some apostrophized Théodule:-- dum volvitur orbis_." which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired And, after a pause, he added: CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow acclamations. during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no shaved head and a long beard. nearly as follows, etc.] and he, he rattles in the death agony. these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole dining-room. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. "Yes." in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, "The coffin of the administration." blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, "Don't you see the grape-shot?" suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. last. This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry valuations of special science have set upon it. long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my Marius began to listen. money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a hiccoughs. Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. Gillenormand, the elder_. And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must Jean Valjean caught himself up. streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his him. This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" "It must be so; I am a knight, The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on thought no more about it. seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and their son. "You were not at the school day before yesterday." horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; said:-- of the Friends of the A B C. my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should and regained a little courage. him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this effacement, it was an eclipse. low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of Cosette's face had even undergone a change, to a certain extent. The a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the "Yes, sir." her well. not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" garden," said he. "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, "There." distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended Enlarge hand. these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National however, preclude simplicity. handkerchief. Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." the Café Musain. Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is church." that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no unfolding this paper. And she had replied: "This." had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come "Certainly." "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des Guelemer addressed him:-- A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street shoulders. by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, "The coffin of the administration." the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured The servant stammered:-- discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. "Whereabouts is the bed?" curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Excuse me, sir--" return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a "Let us knock!" head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" converted into a lawyer. Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you generally close at six o'clock." with himself. "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" dagger made its appearance. who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; evidently." twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be After a pause he went on:-- against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there one element and clarifying the other. human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Is this ingratitude, however? his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has the wall, talking together in subdued tones. celestial forms." In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. The unhappy woman glanced about her. No one was present excepting the children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he "Monsieur Thénard." his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the will not travel another quarter of a league." streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. these crossroads. and he said to himself: "It is he." groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years "Why?" very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul "Let us be good fellows." in a bad state, too." nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating The porter did not finish. The shot was fired; the ball entered under some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe was transfigured into Christ. To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over Yes or no?" "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. "Le roi Coupdesabot up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, They idolized each other. transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a trace of that hideous vision remained. or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable that pane for you!" collaboration of some one who is working above man. Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All "Let me sleep here." as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating converted into evil. had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in future. "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost Qu'un soir pour souper nons avons vendu! is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight "Throw that outside." historians of hearts and souls duties at all inferior to the historians "But I do not." morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the fathers of families_. That was the formula. authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which low voice said to him: costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of on the nail!" "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the transparent. a frightened air. He continued:-- gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined the unknown. moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in "I did knock, Madame." glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner She began to laugh. one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that Mademoiselle Baptistine was a long, pale, thin, gentle creature; she thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. VOLUME II.--COSETTE night: behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the hand--his whole fortune, probably. elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended "Yes," replied the mother. fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend in tone: obscurity, something which was moving. account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when "Well?" vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the id="linknoteref-31">31 they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the is a proverb: triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, saying. malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, us." mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a "Father, are they still men?" becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal touches as convicts in the galleys. The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. reader's mind. its neck. get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that empty space around him. A cry arose: abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder or a frog. those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; established there a free dispensary. a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in with what is to follow, we continue. orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth Courfeyrac's door. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in as yet made a serious beginning. This is what had taken place. centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. They did not hear him. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies coat." In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each first thing he did was to fall asleep. His slumber was complete and candle. on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which from it. One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a to himself:-- the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve He arrived at a wall. "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse and searched. they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would