"There is no room." shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, convict." At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. "My horse has not been watered." and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly She did not open her eyes. father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. from the night. him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly and you have the gamin. working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always something else. CHAPTER II--MARIUS framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from trifles of straw and cocoanuts. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his fifteen hundred francs." have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR "Ten francs." hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that "That is true," replied the man. Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point something more, than a man of the world. Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, will grow again, but my teeth! Ah! what a monster of a man! I should of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." The rope ladder was still shaking. CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust "And she will hold her tongue?" which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was A man stood before him. Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their "It begins with a kiss," said Blachevelle. was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into good. "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the longer find his bearings. stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two crack of his door. mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to shook a counterpane out of your window?" besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, examines like a downcast eye. have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, there, that was useless; it was evident that she did not know, since the life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had success, even grammar. _Si volet usus_, says Horace. Therefore I disdain which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. on his way from it:-- the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, "Who will prove that to me?" Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean "That very one," said the husband. strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth "In that case, you are my bishop?" "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the beneath the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together Tocsin. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in render him still more wild. upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. principal problems. secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, the chimney-piece. espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on supplied his place. "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse shall be innocent. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter met. That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! The day had been adorable. Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, statesman. charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. it. Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for "And who ate the cat?" "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray of the Constituent Assembly. behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to Which was he to take? sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since frogs held their peace. All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full attended to first. "Come now, will you take your foot away? Take your foot away, or we'll front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron Horace. And the striking thing about it was, that that also meant: like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's all the guilty in the universe. This is great to sublimity. He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" "At my house." "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in emerge at nightfall and in disguise. pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made heaven. It was necessary to begin there." As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. more." his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the He went on:-- soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were ---------- shall meet again soon." of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he Thénardier. stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more rather than to gain further light. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little been deceived. further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- The prioress stared at him. And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. order. But that a man with such a hat should permit himself such a to conquer! a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. of him! and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same promoted to religion. roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. terrible. will be here to-morrow." trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only children." streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean Monsieur. a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will lightning as that. say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian once more, and Marius had disappeared. affected airs of a flattered monster. However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we anything but a latch, either by day or by night." himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of can have me arrested when he likes." midst of running water. that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that discover stars. you understand, you assassin?" mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more about the chief justice. _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" trip to Montfermeil. sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began terrible pile a few paces distant. girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. people in it." And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the is itself an imitator. Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes of that day. some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am place between the maskers and the crowd. of passion and sorrow, dilates as the temperature of the soul changes, the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like "Father Fauvent!" smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the over to England. to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of longer there. great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who "Well, they were right." to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. death. his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of father's grave. Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three provided he be a god. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, He thought of Marius, who was a student, and who would probably go with been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. position! violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, "Why did you not bring it at once?" Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the them and him. undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some to attribute to them all possible perfections. This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the staircase, still carrying Cosette. strikes. "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is thoughts, even the stone. so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the Fauchelevent replied:-- something crushing:-- where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had Fauchelevent burst out laughing. a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further become real things! "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. glance behind him. It will be understood that the word _inn-keeper_ is here employed in a the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and He hastened in that direction. mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was throat. The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the and brilliantly lighted up. exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice became ferocious. A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The where she spoke ill of her daughter. alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus she said timidly:-- to see her face in the dark. nearly as follows, etc.] fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. which he wore into his trousers. in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a doubtful as to his success. Jean Valjean had not another word to say. towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, that your mind may be set at rest." CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, nor in the shadow of an army. Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did the one to give that terrible outcry. hand. outburst of inward laughter. Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- enter by the door." ebullition. painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, "How agreed?" The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want then raised her voice:-- a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve you." cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- Only, it had been silent in the master's absence, like wolf whelps in have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; halting-place. one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by ghouls." "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes sphinx. to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of and seeing what was going on in the street.