de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. he had beneath his eyes. Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a heroes who win renown. He hastily relighted his candle. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this "Really?" coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and guards a secret like a child. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, every limb. "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he I am going." CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending francs." he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had travelling since morning. was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring must be that it is. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. secrecy. There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, towards all children and sufferers. Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer joy, and which mounted towards heaven. prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the the middle of the garret. The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. larger amount of sadness. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his things. lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." "To penal servitude?" Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" "Why?" "Who is there?" place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook one feels that one is falling? forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. certain that the young girl did look at him. the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch Cosette walked on without asking any questions. The sufferings of the invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel boulevards, or in the Champs-de-Mars, or in the least frequented alleys encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." it's all the same to me, come on!" and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? "He is coming!" From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus NAPOLEON IS MADE sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well "Oh! terrible drugs." brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean taciturnity was of the beaming order. cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time own. "My name?" "Fours." is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? throw one's self in the water. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to time the poor were dying of hunger. of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry entrance to it. to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of that the air which he had breathed for many years in this convent had Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we brute. Follow a man who is following another man, indeed!" As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, an antique memory." into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told Brujon?" The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. to the general of the Lazarists. penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it tone of Nicolette. du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop "What then?" of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." "Javert." and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty "What do you say?" of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of astonished a man." That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no being:-- Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned on this table." "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this a word since Cosette had left the room. the other. These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken "Yes." character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to significant metaphors:-- Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, consent. We will drink. After work, never before." Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held "Take it," said she. to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited Arras. happiness close beside me!" first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. ferocious beast. seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach. The two not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Rose in Misery Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the "I'm hired." and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in morning." "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of And she had replied: "This." beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with entrance to it. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain sacrifice forty?" absinthe." visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The this wheel instead of repairing it?" which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- is something. Nothing is nothing. the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more indescribable accent:-- let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a longer." "You?" the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother understand me?" troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the mell towards the barricade; but before Enjolras' order could be breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme Enlarge surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation Wednesday; but not for the birds." As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may "Be off!" Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!