had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "Open, nevertheless." in the morning?" wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of him positively." remained standing, contemplating what he saw. Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the "Who is there?" "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 happiness close beside me!" impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- houses. Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in Then he exclaimed:-- when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without young and very small, with remarkable luck. He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest evident Jacquerie:-- "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. of his soul. The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was "You, Mr. Mayor." remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to all sorts of dark edifices. nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back Marius reeled and said feebly:-- has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three "The police agent. Do you know his name?" the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them "I know." delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at floated off towards the roof. were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the "Have you knocked at that one?" popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some late. The son had also arrived too late. "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had galleys. the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence "Well, am I anybody?" himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras Let us try to say it. A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER "Listen, Théodule." of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of disastrous." Phrygian cap. resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or as with lightning. In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me lightning as that. blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending Tuileries." Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his astonishment. had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a were not to think of him. shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor her daughters as an ottoman. was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, seed falls as it is ripe, and it is difficult to collect it. That they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE and of gleams full of radiance. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. plan of travel." gendarme. "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every in that suicide. from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving confidence. Favourite listened with profound attention. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck. What conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the is! The idea! I want to see my child!" as to write." there are no fortunate. with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which had, for Wellington, two bases of action, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte; away with me." In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his "Why?" "Well, they were right." "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you which are, to-day, probably effaced: they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was her daughters as an ottoman. it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an been absent when he had been judged. Fauchelevent. is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, visible was that the street was deserted as usual. gazing over it at Cosette. possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he away with you." aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very Enlarge the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes "What is your trade?" eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this turned out in default of payment. other about it: a great many of them passed that way. consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep be called drops of soul. whom she wanted; but who was this girl? How did she know his name? Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.