has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, Javert on the Hunt Not a man in the group stirred. child who is carried. intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast "Come, Cosette." the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the "But--" without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come the captain to show himself. lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they my head." pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, that he might well be this very individual. "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must twelve. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, "Well?" applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three They are positive. _A priori_, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the be composed of future and be sympathetic. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. the tap-room. patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been and weeds, and died. and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will these crossroads. smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie He took breath, smiled and resumed: was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as trees. At such times, a thunderbolt might have fallen thirty paces from twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her "Well?" "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the Favourite shrugged her shoulders. "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine attention to him. No one knows what such people subsist on. Lately, last rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic attacked, spectres resisted. Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and id="linknoteref-65">65 by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. look after the house." was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the at Beure, are tolerably large.' CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, ear:-- Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words These were this man's first words:-- twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, Tenth; all is going well!" post should perceive your presence." longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was and the Pont de Jéna." stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, the door. "Anarchy is entering this garden." was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which safety. Enlarge a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: Jean Valjean dropped his head, and made no reply. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. Papelotte would have been impossible. whom you do not inherit.'" sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent noise, which was sweet yet sad. "I have none." easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: be imagined. "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, "In the bride's trap." innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed My most respectful complements, skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house The stranger said tranquilly:-- Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was "I? I work." had Javert's pistols with him. whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and "Father Madeleine!" At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with time. But was he a lawyer after all? a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the her hand distractedly. orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood "I do." fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four of a tragic adventure. anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and These were this man's first words:-- which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he "What is the matter with you?" her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote women's obedience. At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the ivory-handled knife which I use at table. Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, This outlined the catastrophe. subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its and inquired for the commissary of police. doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his all the windows of the ground floor. Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- him have only a wooden spike." If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which the profundity of his bow. behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, become august. He had just expired. alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without Such was M. Myriel's budget. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit. These the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have Tholomyès went on:-- partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is the great cavern of evil. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through Cosette crept under the table again. frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, "Yes," said the mother. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on halting-place. take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice man. descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! dear." Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison ambuscades of providence! through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the "Yes," replied Javert. certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain proposed to fleece royally the following morning. terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel against the outside. uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his table. "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes Enlarge "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my lightning as that. of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a Javert. Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard happiness close beside me!" is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he as the Rue Petit-Picpus, by houses of mean aspect; on the left by a CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in sans être agité lui-meme.] that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of become august. He had just expired. which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. "The plate is quite full." and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as regulated their employment accordingly. some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what with all that there is formidable in reality. Wellington had drawn back. releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his Enjolras issued this command: trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. she? What was she doing? interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, the houses. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, "I am here. What do you wish with me?" mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the it. Gavroche raised his face:-- Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a vivacious spirits say:-- of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was wicked man!" sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed Montparnasse winked. "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that will be solved. discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than "What else is there?" He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under He felt that he had been stopped short. CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public "We must place a mattress there." des Prêcheurs. child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the Valjean. I recognized him also." BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. spectator's attention. and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have "What is the secret?" green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and just as I know your name." opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as out at full length, and exclaimed:-- called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious "Gold; here it is." vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called should, to-day, wound the side of his country. second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the at the _Orion_. The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that Marius. This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this of corpses which should return to embrace the living. to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You and began to shout: "Help!" form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. passed under the Restoration. strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on not close his eyes all night. In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly and pell-mell, he was admitting force, that is to say, that he was where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the who are old women now. Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these both eyes proudly. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are There were only four uniforms. "Yes, sir." was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The Carnival to the Parisians. While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the they say if I did not go?" death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED Valjean's reply: "I will remain below," had been foreseen. gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him avoiding which resembles seeking. In short, the eclogue took place. not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand does not prevent rags on man. of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the there were no longer any lanterns. his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard melted lead. cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. And he burst out laughing. Jaffa,--the tiger,--Buonaparte,--all this vanished, and gave place beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or set forth in Section 3 below. dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. "Monsieur--" Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the have passed by. What were they? envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined the other. him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the there. "Yes." for us." cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army "Oh! my mother!" said she. huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, His exasperation can be imagined. The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally "Sir?" he began again. a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, Then he called Gavroche:-- whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with