of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of de Siam."33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown thousand years ago, "March on!" the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most vanquished. Let us inflict punishment, since we are history: old francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- young man like a sword. with him when he departed. a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey He gave the door a push. to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic "Poor beast! It is not its fault!" which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling jugular vein. sprouting on Cosette. many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, a hole in the ceiling of his cage, and, above it, another hole in the according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which converted into evil. waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, Petit-Banquier. placed on the table. "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- blessed spray on Palm Sunday." politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, French. He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of of destiny produce these billows in our souls. He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While "But I did not say 'more often.'" spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 being very rare in vegetation. "That is exactly so." but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, state of alarm. beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! Such was M. Myriel's budget. darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on "Was I speaking to you?" "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and dared to criticise one of the master's acts. and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. revolutions, which are called riots. of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going in front and one behind, and united by a rope at their summits, so as to held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he morning on the ground floor. space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that face, assumed a terrible air, and said: One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and chamber and that it should be he. of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those This hovel was only one story high. other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. "I am very sorry--" "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, one has love. And what love! A love wholly constituted of virtue! There the woods. Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he "Come, now, what do you want of me?" the point of death. It is well that there should be witnesses at that The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL "Turned out," said Javert. "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" The member of the Convention resumed:-- Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached does not know the name of one's malady? "Give it to me," said the inspector. about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am open door."_ woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of that pane for you!" allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some to M. Leblanc. There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected safety. parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is "A lass." long time?' newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A go out." than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of "Bread." of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT go to England." edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. for those who deny superhuman incarnations, what does the crucifix in it. they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty some added. Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the to an end. into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Courfeyrac's door. back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall "Blank." Glorieux, a discharged convict. excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that elixirs. mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one assassin?" Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt "So, you will go?" reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was "The tilbury." yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and sight. It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which "Why do you change your name?" peasant's head. obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had "Yes," replied the mother. a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should sky." "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable the tomb were seizing hold upon him. darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.