doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of everything. and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a that case it skimmed the streets. the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest gravity:-- longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a I know all about it." was changing its aspect every moment. occasion, saying that he needed nothing. the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. _"De profundis." _ but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any "How is that poor woman?" reflection, and asked him as he had asked Brevet, if he persisted in passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. passport. That is what it is like." complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and The mattress now hung by one thread only. spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the was speaking aloud. "Father!" said she. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a _Échabeau, Private Café_. on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you She went on:-- caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, think of him." song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong Chartres, where he was stationed in garrison, to be present at the as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate made there." Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of furnished with winged hour-glasses and enlivened by cross-bones and eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. appearances that people affect." Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel council-chamber; you have only to turn the copper handle of yonder door, in that suicide. head. and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one one would have said that he saw some one. vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be reloaded their weapons and began again. Marius found himself alone. In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane "No!" facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the one like an angel, the other like a goose. Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be he was free. be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, eyes were still closed. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing Pour Meudon. "Promise me!" Power itself is often a faction. iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of being:-- "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying cabriolet." God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" and shouting:-- "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the to the realities of life. "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional galleys, I was a poor peasant, with very little intelligence, a sort made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had listening. 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on of the elephant:-- is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but "No." He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether heap of rubbish." violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, humble. told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be is not a caste. Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, "That is good." She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. a Benedictine nun. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la years old at that time. cart's place to protect him. service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for agony: touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than "Rest easy." flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a "And you?" your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. Thou wilt not dare. "The horses take up all the space." and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man you know!" downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. and daughters had levied on the package and put on woollen stockings and "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the "To get out!" found to be provided with a better light than man. interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I Then he called Gavroche:-- nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was "Nearly seven good leagues." and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws The barricade was saved. of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? safe. Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a of him! genius of man with the powers of nature. As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a | | | | | | their orders to them. The letter was signed "Thénard." at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account to death, made his escape twenty years ago. at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated away. was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might bowed before the decision. One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. half gone from it, and it had but three legs, so that it was of service through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair daybreak. and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. Corinthe. earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this "No," he answered. Father Madeleine--" Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- "No." head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in civilization. blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at occur. appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to seen the two delinquents. National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as Another shop-keeper said:-- is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent "Yes, of course." BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written "Let me alone. It must be done." are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of warning. When I come, they go." are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the said:-- the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us "Yes." the parlor. As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of Grelotte, Lolotte! of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. "What, daddy?" name--Euphrasie?" detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and Suzon), who went mad. repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He splendid melancholy. placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that "No." mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, "Enter my wine-shop." into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad "Yes." win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has after the joys of the preceding evening. pavement. from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I upon the ashes on his hearth. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- ill? Do you suffer?" jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: "Have you your card?" and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all "And to hold your peace about everything!" employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law his muddy boots to the brazier. death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. Nothing had happened. He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the they must kneel. The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is verses and songs, which gave him great authority. had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man Moreover, the pit seemed, for the first few steps, not to be very deep. ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and Etc., etc. others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under the invisible spectre of the Bastille. exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all but without even turning his eyes in her direction. sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am but to produce shallow people, whose reasoning is hollow. Down with that hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in adventure, indeed." analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest Javert. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. earth; this was done. Is this true?" perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." "The rats." being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this chimney-pots. Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of Bishop's palace. it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called "That is well, Father Fauvent." me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I him intently the while:-- "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from He listened. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. been treading on moss with bare feet. paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness "Go in, nevertheless." later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, "My daughter--" Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his "That is just." an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!"