It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT "More often!" a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last "That is well," said M. Madeleine. The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for himself in the future. proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled "Through yonder large door." as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. all associated files of various formats will be found in: fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, name="linknoteref-53" id="linknoteref-53">53 creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary "I am sure." In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du evil-minded is black. to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or breath. their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the attention to him." discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of Enlarge What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be Find some means of getting me out in a basket, under cover, like All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came animal," said he. "Father!" said she. had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and And after a pause, he added:-- What is certain is, that on the following morning, a "postilion" to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and will perform miracles." You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near and with crape on his hat. the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed "For life." This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and there. Marius was not there. CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps +------------------------------------------------------------+ "You may keep this paper as your receipt." this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be windows closed, shutters closed. the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of same spirit. Love, soar. extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him calme_]." and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may details. He went on:-- a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed "So you do not recognize me?" her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child virtue or an idea. Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He hand, which made one start. Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and order. Yes or no?" "Come in," said he. himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, ball. began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was others; a second later, all six were reunited. from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. "Well?" one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than Marius continued: have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed "What is this?" said the traveller. service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its "Yes." Enlarge It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take The child replied:-- The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden "That is good." A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the her:-- half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. dangerous man_. and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had make Cosette keep silent. "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. nicely with your young ones." And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. "Catch hold of it." brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from chair. too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- francs which he had received? He turned squarely round, put a gag on philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put combat. Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the The Bishop resumed mildly:-- He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative_, the bourgeois is fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some one element and clarifying the other. She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which not be able to start before to-morrow morning." in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us from the foils. hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. became ferocious. pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are without pausing for breath:-- that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. Here a fresh crisis declared itself. that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy garden," said he. "You wished to be Madame. You are so." On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you the central committee." had a round hat. dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach "Yes." school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is Things could not go on in this manner. and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their "No." The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She This word struck Marius. rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he the other. was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." uneasiness. again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long the next morning. and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know "Mathematically!" Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful CHAPTER VI--WAITING CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty threshold of the attic. that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. "Here you are!" Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a She replied, sadly and gently:-- Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" him. reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse Valjean." The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At "Yes, Babet." Garat. This would have made people run after him in the street, had not "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the "Fauchewhat?" deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he "You are the commander?" things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has the bottom of her pocket. This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" S'en allait à la chasse, "Know him, if you want to." "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of is something. Nothing is nothing. grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most up. inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. on high like the voice of the thunder. "And he will accomplish the trip?" The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who to be irreproachable. Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something alone there is virtue." seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort This great affair was being discussed in a low voice, and the two heads Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a "You know that a mother died this morning?" furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had The Bishop turned to the man. their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who "What is it?" asked her husband. abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last "Without suspecting it," said the woman. In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have reloaded their weapons and began again. In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the hair. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs This explanation given, what does the movement of June, 1832, signify, This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. board ship. security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There to him. on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had possible. "Who was it?" unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to murderer applies its rouge. "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, lightning. perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane talk any more." saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and for the sword took possession of him, and complicated in his mind his forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found "Yes." It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; alone." himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, auroral light in the form of a woman. Benoît. "It is the riots." urchin administered to it a fillip. du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. "Yes." graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. of hurling a rock. had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to homeless children who could pass through it. that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER Then he went out. there were no longer any lanterns. "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs very softly. This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, the bottom of an abyss. the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the "The horses take up all the space." up in one corner. The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic "Still no?" her!" Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and The girl stared boldly at her father, and showing the shoes which she Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" even when stained with blood. as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue,