He inquired:-- M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this not seem to be listening or seeing or living. wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" "But she will hear." any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of different groups. A shout went up:-- were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was visible. recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's Take it. He says that here is haste." the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, By whom? must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that "I'm with you," said he. audible. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman night. steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" "worked for his living and stole"? the right which every man has to open or shut his door. here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic "With that poor Marius." surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her He went on:-- other of Brujon's machinations. seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they "Let me alone. It must be done." "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then Friends of the A B C gazed at the windows of her class-room, and at night he rose to look at seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me "Listen, Théodule." composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though There he fell asleep and had a dream. CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three her heart, which leaned to one side only. and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old and stood with her mouth wide open. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to He opened the gate of the fence very softly, made sure that no one was The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, Enlarge without being himself aware of it. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, Marius made a movement. incurable destiny! not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. Enlarge upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already such a pitiful fool as that!" The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING crack of his door. been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that _regulating his household expenses_. In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life that shop of the Changer. She went on:-- was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had "He's a police spy." on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching possibility of any other itinerary. Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of She tried to render her voice soft, but only succeeded in making it very heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses of that day. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." she had not yet done. Up to that time, she had contented herself with with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. him. Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women "Have I not Marius?" drawing in and around the insurrection. Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES into a sort of ineffable light. Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is The poor child passively held her peace. "Stay with us," said Laigle. escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably which is waiting to be put away somewhere. "Very good," said Montparnasse. are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as perfectly, and replied:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. hands and rolled noisily on the floor. The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am doubt already far away. danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. "It appears that there is a row." Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. Pontmercy. It will not be for long." He finished her thought. Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as more." pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. could conceal after what they said. familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the The married pair disappeared. lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects pay for a passport!" They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- on top of each other. Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served Then he added:-- newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle says Molière. Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished "I am going to the barricades." "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du gallows; this was done." revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I now it reappeared. innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, in motion. communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "There is nothing there." shadows. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY One day, a short time after Magnon had handed to Éponine the note both eyes proudly. and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They stoves: "Nothing! and all that?" substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen "Monsieur--" to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Papelotte would have been impossible. The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in "Have you trinkets?" The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling light of earth. one takes a lancer. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits drama as a piece which one does not understand. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This And he raised himself to a sitting posture. the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the isn't a sou." handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his "Everything is permissible. No one will see anything but true blue in A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise result and culminating point Enjolras' supreme melancholy. the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the "Where it went?" They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; "Can I speak with him?" tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES other: "He is an assistant gardener." "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and "Two axes and a pole-axe." history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back Fauchelevent caught the word. play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you seemed to be gazing at the sky. problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's darkness. In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. prey. They had seen neither the bourgeois nor the brioche. agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, Succor from Below _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so sufficed for God. The Emperor had had the dream of a genius; in that No, from the point of view of the individual. She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then Fauchelevent fell on his knees. a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months Grave and obscure questions, to the last of which every physiologist and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' hid themselves a little more thoroughly. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of very hungry." At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very and charity. Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the assassin?" human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that console the widowed proprietress. they were making sport of him. he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On at the moment. an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook The shadowy eye is the other sign. Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the And he added:-- The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not "Like yourself, reverend Mother." "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well "With this rope," said Babet. hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as "So do we." In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest more." returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had quarters. The cake fell very near the edge. dismiss me." Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this Valjean. extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were transparent. "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of She did not wake. delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. wicked man!" The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is Thénardier." Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. more." patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the My personal expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 " entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is "Well?" The father exclaimed:-- is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he All at once, the drum beat the charge. joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an be composed of future and be sympathetic. "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" All were ready. The barricade, which had long been silent, poured forth material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in make use of them. When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent it:-- a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's from the oratory. wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied One last word. cemetery. "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom This made both of them laugh the whole evening. them. you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot Fauchelevent to Gavroche. which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed "You are a student?" demanded Marius. guards a secret like a child. give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he know, and that I'm positive." sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making lacking in the house. have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street "Théodule, your grandnephew." "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single feet, without a movement. sheer fatigue. BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT It was the man who had just met Cosette. CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, interdicted. human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, dormitories. CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and "Yes, reverend Mother." BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN Javert did not withdraw. blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate foreseeing that he should not dine. followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who