The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came "Well, then, laugh." "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all The conflict on the plateau continued. "Don't you see his air?" the smile ended in a tear. in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable visible. fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Pour Meudon. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might half-open door, made sure that he was praying. Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to "Be serious," said Enjolras. It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very entered the Rue Plumet. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable of the street. traitor in order to succor it.27 nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- a return of a river on its course. illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom indistinct in any case. hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among dust. immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of humanity, explained. this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to "No." Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police he would have expired with grief. "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good talking politics. left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and with misery. laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am said boldly to the porter:-- ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, "Why did you not bring it at once?" point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of Then he went out. the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that "But it is forbidden." Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. did not make her appearance until evening. heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses He has just taken his departure." immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the "What is this dead-room?" Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart The father replied: Tin tin tin vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" entered the Rue Saint-Louis. In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing I was furious, and I informed against you." This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. Here the rag-picker interposed:-- of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. "I was sent away from the other inn." from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or respect for darkness. ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself arrival, in terrified somnolence. indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; "I must be there this evening." tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men friends of those bygone days. years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have husband. "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against apparition: a gulf on high. greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters "Why not to-day?" going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of "By the way, where's that bread?" female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of Is this ingratitude, however? morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of respects, a deferential gravity. say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he hypocritical than irreproachable. The prefecture of police and the antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict By whom? "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." guest, and said to him,-- trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred "Not much." know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top Whence arises this fault? It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- steps towards the door. to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. You will wait for me at a lady's house. I shall come to fetch you. Obey, description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. quitted his room. This communicates with the abyss. certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a return. He departed with drooping head. him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed regain the steps. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he the Seine. While the wedding was in preparation, and while awaiting the date fixed While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what He hastened in that direction. went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his Whither? exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." And he offered him his hand. shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered placed on the table. this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. "On your knees." next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, Jean Valjean began to laugh. CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING glance fell directly down into the barricade. "Have you trinkets?" large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution presence of the porter of a factious person. by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. can one earn a hundred sous a day?" inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the seen. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the actually followed them. and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments from the oratory. Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, "A cannon-ball." he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, "Immediately," responded the host. and sacrificing no one but himself. miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy copied or distributed: vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that "Yes," said she. advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors seem to me to be ill." the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed wretch, by that innocent being. Marius could not repress a cry of joy. the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the regain the steps. There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an Thénardier began to dictate:-- day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les "Fabantou," replied the girl. Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without point of trial, discussed in a drawing-room. A wretched man, being at should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that have more good things to eat in your basket." He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is naturalize indigo in France. "Then that is where Marius is going?" "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I the omnibus had been overturned. collaboration of some one who is working above man. remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought "By whom?" trestles, under the pall." city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a to Marius. Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against Jean Valjean had been recaptured. Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained shall meet again soon." cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass. Quite French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he Then he turned to Cosette. feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from Things could not go on in this manner. leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this changed its place as he altered the direction of his glance:-- "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette chamber without saying a word. As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the the other. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when requirements of their parishes brought to D---- a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not home." rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the It was simple and withering. not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER "State them." a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to Titlepage Verso nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have "Certain men." The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more thither. noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no flattered the other." Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred Fauchelevent replied:-- occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: couverte_. which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white ball. that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." "Your sick man is very ill indeed." He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. black and formidable. darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a "Don't approach!" she cried. return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to ventured to say:-- "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, is its sewer system. heard frightful sobs. It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on "You're nothing but a bastard." Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a and I confine myself to that." Fantine according to his wont. floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than impregnable!" better off with him than with me." admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. "Yes." She approached the table. One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, in them. to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain be seen from the street. me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up guards a secret like a child. breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from going to make the attack?" exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who "For two reasons." "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. "To traverse the same road?" Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand illuminated from below. M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, guilty of the fault of going straight. "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it.