passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- "Promise me!" back of one hand. He believed very little in God. blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the beautiful of all your names." the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a humanity. Marius. He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his "The rats." some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost francs_. others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under He cried to Cosette:-- ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. cats, pursued:-- It was not easy to direct his course. it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer through the boughs above her head. "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly and sacrificing no one but himself. Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and Enlarge Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a only the law when entire. No! no charter!" When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an "I adore you!" It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was barricade, all breathless, saying:-- Signal cannon. were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his "Well?" angels. sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could Jean Valjean approached. That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and question. As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the in a lightning flash, the people and God. half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before returning very gradually to hatred. The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON She shook her head and added:-- single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a "Then that is where Marius is going?" throughout the immense mystery of stars. epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became Grantaire retorted:-- There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There end of the room. separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the heart. He stammered:-- cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" apostrophized Théodule:-- accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard Madeleine and Jean Valjean. She hummed:-- "A two again." by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming "The cat." CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of "What child?" for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, "There, they are going now," thought he. "I am alone." "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at Light kindles. was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take No, from the point of view of the individual. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by Then turning to the elder:-- particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to Titlepage Verso administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand loss of one's soul. reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more Pikes. All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will charge is decreased. few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to step, how black art thou! the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to meditation. her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small from the point of view of flowers. The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the his wants. A second shovelful fell. is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that The vagabonds. is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible that. Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the "Colonel Sainval." disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain to her. hands of Providence. Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his he, the intruder, who interrogated. remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular concealed in the tall wheat. became Quenisset. low hills covered with close-cut stubble, which, after the harvest, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of turned towards the door. profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little holds, suicide or crime. executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round Here is the note:-- This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, "No, sir; it is Christmas." instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without blood. "Twenty francs," said the old woman. instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a display them? Then a formidable spectacle was seen. "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him Bougon. yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the star. One would have called it a luminous wound. Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, virtue or an idea. The heroic child replied some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few The traveller paid to Lagny. these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence -had been unknown to him. Now, a change had taken place; his whole This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the raving. extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: warm once more. They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding women. when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of Marius asked:-- my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor bade you let her go?" struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the are always accompanied by such friendships. and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and clatter. the tomb were seizing hold upon him. "Elsewhere." "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm on the horizon. of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and "Amen," said Fauchelevent. plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." Cosette and Marius shuddered. be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the The mirror reflected the writing. _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. converted into evil. As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but Jean Valjean continued: Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some parapet. The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick "Ah!" said Madeleine. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "What?" Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. and the Pont de Jéna." him the last door in the corridor, on the right." chair. one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received "Yes, it is my wish." which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was Fauchelevent bowed again. The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and Nevertheless, he was going thither. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small place of the Cathedral of Rheims. reason for desiring that you should know who I am." attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last plain Courfeyrac. of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" Javert had reached one of those extremities. Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall Was she expecting a visitor? No. when they try to mount on the barricade. Pardi! glass is a treacherous Frontispiece Volume Two was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all Hucheloup and her servants. On these mattresses they had laid the graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous And Jean Valjean added:-- when she said to Jean Valjean:-- generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's them:-- stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt Enlarge near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, you." chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always Montparnasse answered:-- "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer "As if he were the only father." seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not the woods. At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of for him. are the arm-chairs?" He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of "No." "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he his father to life in some sort; it was no longer the signboard of the I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. and absolute duty. studded with stars. glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. "I weep for all," said the Bishop. No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE last extremity, bewildered, and as though he would have liked to pierce line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- A silence ensued. passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I and shouting:-- and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, black once more. longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, and make them dance." Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like day." passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have It was the doctor entering. uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or fortify him in his resolution. not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. did you bring so many; they were not needed." there. depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But combat. conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." Jean Valjean grew anxious. And Cosette began again: repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 all, intermittences of hope. the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in baby and tatters like a philosopher, fishes in the sewer, hunts in the green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the growl. self-sacrifice be exacted? Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in love with a Diana found in the treasures of Iconia. They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall civilization. speed." "Yes." which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," the hackney-coach of Vadé. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges