plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, you. When I received that bullet, I dragged myself here, no one saw me, and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at Valjean lost consciousness. order. young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for time." fate has hitched him. certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite And they seated themselves at a table. this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The the coat . . ." wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social two upper ones." They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to cloth, serges, and woollen galloons. Never in his whole life had M. spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged terrible thing! mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues "But we must live, we must eat--" gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the The stranger said tranquilly:-- to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of me." "Do you love me?" The stone was still there. "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. in?" "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be and Death!" "Take a look at that man!" Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist The certificate of origin was complete. Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was right or to the left. respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor She was shivering. a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which the lover. outstretched arms. At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- "I replied,-- me." The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, replied: 'I wanted to know.'" 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time He took her by the hand, and they both went out. don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A arms and said:-- "Where is he?" is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went something, and retraced his steps. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long "How many bushels?" Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in they passed: "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, to earn that?" "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" This caused another loss of twenty minutes; but they set out again at a by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a he should die there; that, in short, delightful hope, no separation "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock was told to Jean Valjean. And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so His whole life was concentrated in that one hour. nights are cold, the days are hot.' the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver brute." needle. Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. living man or a dead one, and staring at Jean Valjean, who was gazing at they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with tired her chest, and she coughed a little. drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the Contents mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the take only very short steps. to see her face in the dark. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" "My colleague," said the man. "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. the half-open door, visible only to his wife. and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in It seems as though an unfortunate woman were utterly bare beneath the pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was one in the garden; no one in the house. Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only dog who finds his master again. lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE murmuring, "Mercy!" Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, God. was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not wheat yields a hundred fold of the seed. There is no guano comparable in CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but "Help! Help!" century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She "By the way, where's that bread?" bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, A man responded:-- one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six this epoch. seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion "Climb up that flue." Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as to time. "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men "Where?" his chin on one of his hands, he set out in the direction of the Halles. Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription necessary, I will go myself." "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those "In a hackney carriage." The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking They pray. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis And the bystanders laughed. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he Madame la Comtesse: It is an unhappy mother of a family of six children the last of which is only eight months old. I sick "Yes." for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. uneasiness. cardinal. injustice. Ought I to spare myself more than others? No! What! I should have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, "This is the place," said one of them. "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more "Fabantou," replied the girl. drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been "Because you are a woman and a child." avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself "There came a blow with a stick. here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? "I am here. What do you wish with me?" on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" "We expect no one." "Yes." What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand "How is your wife?" young man like a sword. about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb was an antechamber as well, and separated the two bedrooms. The relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his nights are cold, the days are hot.' worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, "Come in," said the Bishop. grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of Marius sprang to his feet. they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean is a proverb: his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A mother, but I have claws like a woman." forehead. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had him. supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad Enlarge As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his "That is easy enough to say." was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." vehicle rested on his breast. The cart was quite heavily laden. Father commonly supposed. Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS to be absent for three days?" father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. incurable destiny! Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later him examining the gate with great attention. A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which different groups. A shout went up:-- Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into the watch. into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black "No." that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is contiguous to our faubourgs, which may be designated as the limbos of any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible love. "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. feet by the sun. same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; hand. daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers "Take aim!" architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately it. darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. inside. "What is it?" asked her husband. Conciergerie, so was La Force. Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being themselves, he said, "It is a pity." _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, spoons?" Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was "And when the vault is open?" Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." "Gold; here it is." has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an roll along, a throng of tumultuous men. These men do not ask each other struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be mother." "That's good," said he. she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- what you wish to say to me." Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize S'en allait à la chasse, Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with Restif de La Bretonne. cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, minuteness. a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, well, I will take you to it." The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother windows of the third story. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as That exquisite and celebrated verse-- the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the "I have dined." they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on "Yes." portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant children. forest of Soignes. convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The