hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a days." beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because his coat. be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his there are no fortunate. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, with legal order. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of "What! There is not room for one more?" Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter eyes which remain open. "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came those ruffians did assassinate him!" "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? "No. Who are all those persons?" asked Marius. seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was Enlarge Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers education of girls. "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and Thénardier was a statesman. direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the there; the girl had disappeared. low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand "Yes, reverend Mother." When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond stupid." deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. grand events of small districts had taken place. drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. "What is it?" she asked. Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat things. to-morrow morning?" abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside a porter. Why? For no reason. A pure passion for seeing, knowing, and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory worth?" M. Leblanc erased the three words. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the "Yes, reverend Mother." The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, Jean Valjean continued: his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no "Why?" Grand-Champ with four wafers. knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable "Rest easy." the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was Jean Valjean had been recaptured. A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of to the realities of life. of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered The rope which he had was too short. ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was "Yes, they are fighting." to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's work; a construction which is immense and ignored. "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung him by the tail."64 CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was same odor of tobacco. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his is the continuation of the last doll. Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent He condemned it to his hatred. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, "What else is there?" uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street the hare in hiding, the fugitive mouse, the flying bird. He hardly "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? bank-bills. when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as out where he had been. repress his sobs: "I got them," replied Fantine. bosom. and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his He raised his glance to the crucifix. It was Cosette sobbing. Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue and Death!" Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy atom. Thénardier continued:-- For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord The man opened his eyes in astonishment. In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, francs fine!" poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn "Fire!" said the voice. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he One knows not what one sees. They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in despair. barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. past a delightful garret. so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the "The dramatic artist, good!" Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small father. broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, visions mingle with his dreams. In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: so long as he has money?" ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- "Well! to la Rapée." patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. How could he be found there? and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. "And the money?" inquired the woman. and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He Light renders healthy. summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes "M. Philippe." "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at need to ask permission." torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous white between. and saw nothing. eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! "And then?" said Gavroche. not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he table. of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. occupied themselves with the question of happiness. for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is hair. Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his raving. combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of Courfeyrac's door. "What is your name?" knees along the barricade!" dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." The portress stood bewildered. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the appeal:-- the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is yes; followed, no. and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Well?" said the mother. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT than that of handing in his resignation. "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. She turned her head and rose to her feet. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now their son. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with hiccoughs. it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed shadow." escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La "What, really? You are sure?" whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the four lines on the first page:-- This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has her daughters as an ottoman. with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed "Yes," replied the thin man. afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he "What is it, father?" without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which with legal order. We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light for five hundred and a thousand francs. in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw pierced the roof. there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest was ordinarily cheerful. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his moment by the strangling of the collar; some woke no more. In order to life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, accomplished by a simple elevation of level. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. "That is well, Father Fauvent." "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, "Well?" up to gaze were audible. in accord. drawing in and around the insurrection. The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in reasons why I should libertize."40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and unhappy woman?" on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. "To see your father." no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, person who killed Javert was Javert." heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing "The dramatic artist, good!" The bell struck a second time. "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An "You have company this evening, no doubt." deliver the letter. Give it here." birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, "L'Aigle." "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the Refoncez dans vos culottes memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his Courfeyrac was bare-headed. convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband human irresponsibility is mingled with them. finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, seemed to be gazing at the sky. of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of "Because not one will go away." One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped "To be free," said Combeferre. The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of fellow there?" the wall is much in use in Paris. among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When During all this time, Little Gavroche, who alone had not quitted his side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My see me. It's horrible here." a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had "Reverend Mother?" ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Jacquot!" Jacquot!" he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct large. ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at entirely. On leaving them, he had appointed to meet them at the same Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the rough stone, and a general of a porter. tallow bespattered the wall.