At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to to unveil them suddenly at the last. CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he a judge. Marius had not even seen him. At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with forest. things. CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the look at me?" intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies "It is true," said Chenildieu. consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity noticing that it was no longer in its place. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road into Lebel. the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of "Well?" Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor a bell. He rang. At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does left for him to desire. This trellis-work took the place of curtains. her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the "It is a pity." talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even her daughters as an ottoman. answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of the flowers." depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. "Ah!" wayfarer struck into this. into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been Paris, has seen here and there, in the most desert spot, at the The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who What a reason for lasting! required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of her mouth. but you have degenerated this morning." A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into swing, and said:-- haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched Boulevard Beaumarchais. girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine thousand francs, bully that you are!" been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was "Father! What are those men in those carts?" "That would be imprudent." directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the merino gown. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. "It's your turn." termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The words:-- penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. prevent eternity. a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is her veil lowered, stood beside her. being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled etc. a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old Marius shivered from head to foot. abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled Fauchelevent replied:-- seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted behind the door, and were shaking him:-- "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' "What?" and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her "You are a wheelwright?" _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the with which you will honor me will be reciprocle. I am in possession of a fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are say: "I know him." downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the balance of light and darkness. policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary maw; the other a mask. Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to "Because not one will go away." The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- stone-breaker's hammer in his hand. Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even authorities." uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop beginning. his words: she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to "No." from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" doors opened. Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize "Yes, sir." contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father evidently elsewhere. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" "There is the sun." name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, "I will give you six francs a month." who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of The man who was knocking paused. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the On the following day Father Madeleine refused. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected it. created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, with the infinity on high, is called praying. neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" already?" agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is and as he had no longer Champmathieu, he took Madeleine. acclamations. pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which approaching the barricade. All at once he shouted:-- powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun "Welcome, citizen." narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. regarded by others. above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards happy? I stand outside of life, sir." the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; evident Jacquerie:-- you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands pane all for nothing." didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who and black with mud. He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully impressions. CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up grandeur of Æschylus! M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; "I leave this very evening, aunt." She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, name="linknoteref-14" id="linknoteref-14">14 written names! Thrown into a hat!--" Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.