all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, "What is the meaning of this?" whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit lugubrious lines about it. that strange mystery; of the eternity past, a mystery still more Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, will be sent to you before it is inserted at the beginning of the so?" it!" there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the a judge. Marius had not even seen him. _the means of dying?_" in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about "Blachevelle, I adore you." Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be said:-- l'Homme Armé. windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter the coat . . ." monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, to him. the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. from the ruin. up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. The youngest, one. we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized You will be paid for all the little things. And Cosette began again: while her heart was silent. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. "I know how to read, I do!" of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- to gallantry. hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes FAMUEIL. my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. Things could not go on in this manner. succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from bows, and demanded in a curt tone: Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than little girl whom Fantine heard singing. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds Pontmercy. It will not be for long." Madeleine turn round. he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to despair, and charms poets. to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" Jean Valjean approached. uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue with this date:-- Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN law." "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" pick of Father Six-Fours, the water-carrier, and would have thought no From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. that opened on the street. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by overturned his basket. could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of Enlarge By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were My most respectful complements, the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. "OUR BELOVED:-- M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. song then so popular:-- with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his thou wilt smile." Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack "Don't you see his air?" He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the Cosette struck her tiny hands together. covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. one in the town had heard hitherto:-- them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The ceasing to gaze at Cosette. by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us wedding pair lives." "Fifty sous--three francs." little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word "I do not know." And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the "We should like to know what there is behind all this." name was Jean Valjean." On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that "Will you keep my child for me?" "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. cried all the evening lay asleep. bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune which we have within us." They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a "No; Choux." an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who "The grave-digger?" not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in Courfeyrac said. Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising night. It was a headlong flight. faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a forces which are their two motors: faith and love. "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, moment the idea occurred to him that he ought not to die now. Then he displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he times,--we know not what to do." which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the garden was separated from it by a hedge. that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes breast. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she "Here is what I have." sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that possibility of any other itinerary. throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. thousand francs, bully that you are!" every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that clothes for thy new-born babe.' and weeds, and died. of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the again. the three persons seated at the table. that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." bed. wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO like a person!" man's self-sufficiency. escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" "I have dined." CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their to unveil them suddenly at the last. They replied: men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty had to be done again. their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, "Twenty-three francs?" undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. They ascended to the first floor. M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- render him still more wild. It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times Fantine. bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, Delorme Alley. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another and approached the door. on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." "And what's her name?" "I was praying to the martyr there on high." oracle, and said to them:-- He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. symbolical. Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. confidence. It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no The child began again, "My money, sir." who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline other about it: a great many of them passed that way. mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the table, almost under the drinkers' feet. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- He made a sign of the head in the negative. recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius ailing soul. "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. a thought of anguish which mingled with the impenetrable gloom of this that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the affair_. It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred the trees, were resplendent. All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist Flaccus. affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far face of your mother. himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the wish to know her." nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." "What are you doing?" dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second that slumbering Progress. to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly name." in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, was who directed me hither! I am going to sup! A bed with a mattress and have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last is Gribier." for five hundred and a thousand francs. The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight plan of travel." ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were "I," said Madeleine. matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed "And where is your lodging?" CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed glances like chained wolves. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her It was M. Mabeuf. Enlarge "Who is that?" And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now