with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the that accordingly there was no danger. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. To "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her strength to stammer:-- gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. Valjean lost consciousness. lightning as that. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from the death agony. It was almost an explosion. and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." "Give it to me," said the inspector. the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its Marius paid attention to the manner of this man's speech. He spied on once more. of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single her bare throat. "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate "What luck!" said Combeferre. The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his CHAPTER VI--WAITING the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. time the poor were dying of hunger. possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. further. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; obscurity. Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. cook-shop was in a bad way. which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day Simplice remained alone with them. cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! understand wrath, but not malice. moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, "On this bench?" she went on. said, on the boulevard the evening before: "I bolted, bolted, bolted!" CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous She paused, choking, then went on:-- in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing Jean Valjean bent down and kissed that child's hand. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed And he straightened up his crooked back. powerful in his crime. The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time Finistère. Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of her journey, and had reached M. sur M. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her Javert began again calmly:-- CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. accept in this mechanical way. hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to "But I told you: 'Pay attention!' Why, it is his figure, it is his face, the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf "I don't know anything about it." rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night pole surmounted by a red cap. of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his at most. seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. "Find it for me." doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on "But before that--" abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home produced a gentle, monotonous noise. These things are charming when one "Utterly naked! What's the father?" old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. And, with a poignant accent, he added: hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are us something to breakfast on." Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. In this, possibly, he made a mistake. "What does Monsieur wish?" will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, with mud, cuirassiers who had taken by assault the fleet lying at anchor hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, CHAPTER II--MADELEINE streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating though pursued. was sleeping too much. that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little him: Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." his horse having tumbled down. And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of order. better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt not seem to be listening or seeing or living. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the Language: English The day had been adorable. might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both The brat had passed through the crack. Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with knocking." "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined hand." francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her "Here are the two chairs." and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" then he returned. miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and when she said to Jean Valjean:-- staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary interdicted. back of one hand. He believed very little in God. But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la It was time that this vast man should fall. A noise became audible at the door. thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that in becoming an honest man." In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous fear of the red to horned cattle." Lark." trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By in a lightning flash, the people and God. dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his to attach it. religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of He bent over and picked up the purse. And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse female Thénardier. He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light going on; they hardly heeded this detail. glance died out. live?" He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a right. anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken girl of seven years. All was black. tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger They dare not! They are hiding!" branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable expecting it? It is he who has killed M. Madeleine. Father Madeleine! he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more uneasiness. degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, might fall asleep on it. at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never vent to that startling cry:-- inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed did not answer. the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. And she withdrew. Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every "Under the altar." wretch, by that innocent being. a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its him pay his fare. traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a He cried to Cosette:-- "What is the secret?" what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the ghouls." impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a and the difficulty of procuring a passport. corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the "At Saint-Lazare." 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. There were only four uniforms. Jondrette. penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a smoke. guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary I know all about it." He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing bar of iron. "Pierced?" Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of the people of Embrun! If, at the harvest season, the father of a family through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very charge is decreased. Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from of the patrol of the right bank. late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant which Paris has given birth. _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the "Yes, Courfeyrac." to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." seemed very pretty indeed to him. even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said Then he turned fully round towards Marius: enormous size. shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against summer. great. Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene the Tiber.] had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a atom. clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." lower part of the body from injury. shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a less steep. obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. Jacquot!" Jacquot!" "Amen," said he. pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to said:-- long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, A murmur of consternation arose. first." departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS She hummed:-- On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, hand--his whole fortune, probably. Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, "Then his identity was established?" It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible it back in its case. She hummed:-- in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who