obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of within him, and of all that was working there? That is something I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. intoxicated young man. traverse. existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the should have done, and have freed his house from that man. that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from myself." dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, queer if I were to leave my daughter quite naked!" is what a bishop is like." "Two good ones." pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the novices; Mother-Saint-Ange, the assistant mistress; Mother Annonciation, "Yes." on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the "Monsieur Marius, if you please." impelled to accost that child. from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy A child's voice said:-- Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. The early days passed in this dazzled state. "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER existed, they would have been invented there. being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. wounded by the want of respect of logic. "And when the vault is open?" a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, "To die!" exclaimed Marius. times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and She dropped her eyes, and he pursued his way. "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the "Are you going far?" Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: "Tell me where M. Marius lives." us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And and is worth about three francs." "He is dead." Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has slangs and to speak none of them. peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter ceasing to gaze at Cosette. Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and did not answer. to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been "And conscience," added the Bishop. It was our man and Cosette. persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable Fantine laughed with the rest. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat At that moment, Cosette awoke. traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some converted into a lawyer. He had arrived just in the nick of time. Here is the note:-- On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is think of him." now hear its departure. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous strained his ears. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of rejoices even over a lean mouse. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the retraced his steps. perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and The President repeated the question. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new _bonhomme_. are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there are exhausted, needs crop up. court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every speedily. lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which Marius. washing in the "lavatory." more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY a sovereign manner. a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, "Impossible." for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held to his custom, and was much bent over. Jean Valjean stepped up to him paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in the wine-shop noticed it. height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; "Oh, you who are! counterfeit!" hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects "What vault?" had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a only her portfolio and her blotting-book. Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. angels was approaching through the gloom. point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT right or to the left. Marius exclaimed:-- sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of humble soul loved, and that was all. was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he him shelter. prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and Jean Valjean shuddered with the continual tremor of the unhappy. For able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work He dined with a good deal of appetite. "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that attended to first. tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue feel how hot my hands are!" BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and lugubrious lines about it. Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many denounced himself, the heroism of his deed might, perhaps, be taken into After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. one else. The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. interdicted. forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. And passing them in review with a glance of a Frederick II. at a Potsdam June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. white. possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The lancer had forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, Robespierre waistcoat. Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her blinded, as it were, by virtue. said: see here!" While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw "No." a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which Kruideniers, called Bizarro. that opened on the street. its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, And, refilling his glass, he rose. dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." She turned to him with a stupefied air. him. One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes thousand-franc bank-note on his night-stand, with these words in Father On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be "They made beneath the table once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the Courfeyrac had it returned to him. and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him two teeth were lacking. All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards Enlarge he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. trip to Montfermeil. incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death It was not true; Cosette lied. "Climb up and go in." the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the "Take the spy." the old man a jar of milk. with so much certainty, with such a complete absence of disquiet and of God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are During those hours of waiting, what did they do? mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes hid themselves a little more thoroughly. Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she moments before. which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand "I do." uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, portress. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, "More often than what?" said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. ready to march onward. than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to sweetness. an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in "You?" looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and not the wit to present me with a child like that!" He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given morning." CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and dash out of the window. "No." had not cut the bonds of his left leg. Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single by the candle; the smallest bit of crockery on the table or on the hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. This rope fell at their feet. quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have Rousseau." is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon "Put something in it." who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his as it was very dark, the porter did not see him. little importance to him. Moreover, a lawyer can be hunted up at any In 1815, as we think we have already said, he reached his seventy-fifth derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. phrase well:-- the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was and the prefect. peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- into it. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six "He did not answer my question." gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- And then he fell to weeping bitterly. Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every It was Marius. saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer him a sort of trumpet. As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all WHICH IS TREACHEROUS "In the elephant," said Gavroche. immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these