his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, Up to that time, he had not believed in God. had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even "You can earn a hundred francs," went on Jean Valjean, "if you will nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what The brat had passed through the crack. hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have not leave his apartment. On the day after that, he did not leave his which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been Thénardier thrust his fist into a large pocket concealed under his The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. "Down with you!" said the man. Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to "It is the riots." quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. "So it was a woman?" said he. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to The father's smile became more accentuated. 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the barricade is taken." Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married the monkeys." time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his She was dead. Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to "As if he were the only father." wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing ear:-- which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, tone of Nicolette. envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. "Yes." served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. and scars on its walls, terrible,--such was, retrospectively viewed, the occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" order to live, I will not steal a name." A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- come from us." He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and with him when he departed. the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much And Montparnasse went on:-- Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance M. Leblanc a chair. An instant later she returned and whispered in his reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; expiation. And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old "Long live the Republic!" disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. Marius added in a grave voice: tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. possibility had presented itself. anything to eat?" Enlarge that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue A flash passed, a report rang out. filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one Bossuet, and all the rest ran tumultuously from the wine-shop. It was creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" to see a lancer enter one's chamber. on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated "That it is very cold?" of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone "Where are you going, then?" thunder:-- She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the written names! Thrown into a hat!--" of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning stolen it." Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: twelve thousand verses with a battle. Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he understood. same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him certain fresh access of life. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both "So he has not left his new address?" Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the window. hand." nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted very hungry." CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been she might not see him wipe his eyes. From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, He spit it out with disgust. out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a few inarticulate oaths. into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many England because he had business there. guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the "Say on." The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent white bread. decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. "Yes, sir." Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double recover the sight of one eye. He refused. Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army "A bullet." in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left with this date:-- they had contained but one soul. to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His dreams, their intoxications, their ecstasies, their chimæras, their with a mixture of stupefaction and _naïve_ kindliness. an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its "Why not?" near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such "Yes." the lantern. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew God." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. lime. The strand is perfectly dry, but at every step that he takes, as Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some It was Gribier's voice. the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it "The deuce!" ingenious judge, the populace. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem the room. masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is Jean Valjean turned pale. fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means him once. been caught by a sheep. And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to "Excuse me, sir--" abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be "The charter metamorphosed into flame." Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that unprecedented one to him. it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what he was free. her. "Where?" stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. HIS ARM "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking "I entreat you," said Marius. and said:-- Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing The hearse halted. This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the Jean Valjean remained alone. however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to produced, and said to the cannon: perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. of Fantine. BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at "Nothing." freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! "Sir?" milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a we should ignore. We are ignorant and impious. In this age there exist and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front the night, whirling as it flew, and fell far away on the snow. sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order to him. Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the cried all the evening lay asleep. was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the "Smile." a black hole. on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after Marius looked at the thumb. hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias be composed of future and be sympathetic. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? Je dirais au grand César: Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. "The address that you asked me to get!" On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be "Thou knowest . . ." Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over He replied:-- tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have "At my house." BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the on her knees. explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two the landing-place so vigorously with his cane when Basque was slow in He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the He started to his feet. Minette. is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each country of ours?" have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of Gavroche. paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with himself. holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in the inexhaustible is requisite. Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, tone: The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my meeting on the Jungfrau. "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was himself. discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which him in love with her. His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a about him: effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY "But before that--" researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth "Oh! my mother!" said she. not even a roof over their heads." disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to "Father Fauchelevent, we must come to a decision: I must either be The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," cemetery. was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the "Because I love statesmen." ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, first is dark, the second is black. throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of were closed. In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on grumbled:-- seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on the grave. tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down This trellis-work took the place of curtains. "Peuh!" he exclaimed. rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the And he fumbled in his pocket. leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable This information given, Gavroche added: Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by Invalides? "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided rubbish swept up, corpses removed. Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was health, they are joy, they are life. This is the will of that mysterious Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. The mother, being eyed after a certain fashion, held her tongue. Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of "On this bench?" she went on. people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the communion?" she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, cook-shop was in a bad way. charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there MARINGO his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, "Will he return this evening?" Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish of a citizen. Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs hands a terrible cap which he had. "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain "What have you come here for?" vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of