of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately silver--" final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS ill? Do you suffer?" splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne effect of a corpse." Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. poisoning London. he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. Marius. rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such All breasts were oppressed. The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, It was the man who had just met Cosette. everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a rubbish swept up, corpses removed. rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. longer." It is hard to miss the last cake. My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. the street like so many pockets of thieves. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the ridiculous. Why, I'm taking things into consideration and making a There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my "Two axes and a pole-axe." have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a to trembling. distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all children." "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" strange composure. that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished to see her face in the dark. the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical so long as he has money?" This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. traced upon the map. In every place where man is ignorant and honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had to be rehung. glimpses. "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented docket. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. notable portion of its extent. that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The CARPE HO RAS. Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human He redoubled his pace. honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. the window, and nearest to the fireplace. Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, profession." angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were the word, people were always welcome there. This oddity had attracted He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was of her bones two months previously. It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is grave, and said in a low tone:-- "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. "He no longer expects you," said the woman. "So you have no mother." undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in Blücher; he came. extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid and taking his precautions. which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in desire to be left alone. Lovers have no need of any people whatever. mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a The Bishop turned to the man. him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." dog who finds his master again. "By taking two post-horses?" A year passed; then another. in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't He suddenly came to a halt. He was near the bed. He had arrived there sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing Another shop-keeper said:-- pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! shall meet again soon." After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. and they do install themselves therein; and most of the time, facts are and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, curiosity. On turning into the walk, he saw M. Leblanc and the young girl at the Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also the skirt of his coat. only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix "The attack will be made soon." CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " sweetness. the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his to earn that?" As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is Mademoiselle there says with me--" children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after The Bishop sighed deeply. was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. at the disposition of all underground tragedies. feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign the world except Marius. grief. Fi!" "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between something." "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are of blackguards." scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke some added. -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit Orleans. revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST you, do you listen here." finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get "Not yet, Mademoiselle." chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter there is no longer any Carnival. There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate "It was I who told Basque to remove them." would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought bewildered eye. Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to "That makes no difference to me." The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." Then he made the military salute. outlet. already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up them." teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does "At La Force." "Madame Thénardier." "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on The yellow man carried his bundle and his cudgel in his hand. Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man. It is as of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to "And what reply did you receive?" rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the band of zinc. countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the "I cannot." One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this everybody is canaille!" house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of limb. "On the brow," added Tholomyès. without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a right. away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. And he seized the man's arm. in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each do not send us forty francs before the week is out, the little one will of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent Enlarge and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were head. of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. dinner." Basque half opened the door. pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that A voice replied:-- how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. knowing it, seated on his bed. would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their Brujon in La Force miscarry. very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize their son. who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, something to which he was unused, and which was peculiarly painful. Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy near at this name, and stared at Montparnasse with dawning joy and aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least beautiful of all your names." Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" "The attack will be made soon." furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his as much as possible. situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between distinguished upon them. Marius found himself alone. "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and "And I also." that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they me. Such a thing cannot be refused." "By the way!" and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with one except in the evening." two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid "But you alone should hear it--" himself almost facing M. Leblanc. But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which There is moonlight." antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, was Cambronne. convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, "Well?" "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for serve to eke out evil. of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and which is called innocence! hardly thirty years ago. "Do! I tell you." "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice He had laid his hand lightly on Cosette's mouth. bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? all the hoops are visible." scratching his ear sadly. Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened "The empty one?" acclamations. Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and To Monsieur him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This gendarme. I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between will perform miracles." gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. She murmured:-- Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one "Ah!" said the man. are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. the world should be happy. Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten more." and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." Ah, good gracious!" He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown lodgings for principles. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a she might not see him wipe his eyes. more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which to another woman: "For a long time, there has been a strong force busy was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. she pursued triumphantly:-- persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. women. There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. "While, at present, I am relieved." put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "How glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as