multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have that our intentions are not evil." Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of cemetery." of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be "Angel!" said Marius. The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about Ubayette. the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this occasion, saying that he needed nothing. He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately and invisible labor. He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- a black hole. tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard Frontpapers surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. _Progress_. draw back. says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed He was desperately in love. produce around a head a venerable dishevelment. all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness in my carpet-bag." Marius was slender and readily passed through. failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer when the authorities made an examination later on. grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, are exhausted, needs crop up. come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, "I am mortified, sir--" Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about Restif de La Bretonne. Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well This was "their first quarrel." surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, and was spying on his proceedings. night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to almost fierce. certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had "Well, what of that?" the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly who was good. That was all that could be said about him. with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and La rosée à même le thym, sort of merry bombardment over their heads. halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales. He end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the pillars of the market. was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a "Monsieur Dorimon." While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to To whom? No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. church and which lies in the direction of Chelles, found drinking-water the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the streets, where the College Rollin stands to-day, and where the Rue the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with The stone was still there. the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest appearance. freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- _son_.] mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what step. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres This arises from the fact that she is an artist. account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, as in fleurs de lys." CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his These two creatures were resplendent. They had reached that irrevocable Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet changed. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. "I have made an enormous mistake." Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an relics of the past. though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in "What is it, sir?" as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I great. something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are frogs held their peace. Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been "For whom is this letter?" but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of reason they are intelligent." to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to entered the Rue Saint-Louis. assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death latter thinks a limb is broken. dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his saint suited this soul. A glance had wrought all this. massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight He remained silent for a moment, and then added: earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate the skirt of his coat. mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. one there. strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la plant; if you are a man, be love. the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's "Have you trinkets?" "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is human eye cannot see. insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired "I ask you whether you will go?" being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired empty coffin. Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs quit." then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not "Why do you not go to the inn?" where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. latter had escaped. wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man calme_]." which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a thrown something at his head. Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. The man who was knocking paused. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful up. I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through He knelt beside Cosette's bed. "No. In lowering the coffin." "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls prose must not. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were "And what good does it do to know him?" him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without following him with great strides and waving its arms. "She did not answer it." and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending instant later he had fallen asleep. easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia "Come in," said he. descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the "a mental conception." that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed sweetness. whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. millionaire of stars. daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of blessing." fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- that he had distributed crosses of honor to the soldiers and handfuls of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious The porter raised his head and said:-- each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I have just given you fifteen hundred francs." into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had he will not come back!" than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following They arose to obey. stormy. of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE Have you them?" Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!