planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb having gone off "to watch events." They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for "He is absent. I am here in his stead." "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more which contains an idea of torture and abasement. shed. "Can I speak with him?" plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law Christ. by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to absinthe." separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. his head above the water now and his two arms holding up Marius. In the "Ah!" said Madeleine. _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had reason for being unjust towards God." There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, from the sentence. strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies l'Homme Armé. immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at ecstasies over it. CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name become any paler. here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is This communicates with the abyss. Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island "Why not at once?" let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a found. So he has dived through the earth." paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost "By the way!" did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape by Haydn. came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by of the burning lint-stock. The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is "What is your age?" contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way "Yes." corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and rubbish swept up, corpses removed. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was "To Andelys." His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve "Amen," said he. hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole. He or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found The poor child passively held her peace. eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to some added. Prêcheurs. white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that pettifogging, I beg of you." Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by himself next door to a sepulchre. gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when "We have confidence in you." The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the There was still another chair in the detached alcove, but the straw was M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He lips to it. the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened "Yes, reverend Mother." radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Marius reeled and said feebly:-- One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, He replied with a smile:-- saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of closes them, night. Then his brow decreases, a little hair quivers above An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which she had looked at him! She appeared to him more beautiful than he had shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a "Just as I am going to do." having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, man the Bishop of D---- was. Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very there, so they are not through. The matter must have been greatly in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he added:-- recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were silently, as though he were talking to himself, which caused them all to patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says "He is dead." shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving He halted, and said gently:-- visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES impossible, as a woman without children. And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on other, and probably a volume of the same romance. We'll go and have a drink together presently." to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was his head; he had not noticed it. We have never understood this sort of objections. is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, Favourite shrugged her shoulders. Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of It was already done. in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at It was M. Madeleine. She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months added:-- epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "My hands are benumbed." Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; "After us!" yelled the ruffians. roof was slippery. Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half This gave him a different nose. Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, BRUJON, 1811. actually followed them. teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the "Come in now!" VOLUME II.--COSETTE killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, had been able to remain in France. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there "Why do you say, 'Ah?'" will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous the language of wretchedness. "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." On the following day he did not come. itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. that he might well be this very individual. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last blows. could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with flowers before man cut stones. These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? the abysses of the universe! on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; "no." stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any earth. Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated He was decidedly terrified. In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine with me." with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the "This is our flag now." to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE seen the two delinquents. ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those an old hat and his purse. he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the him, as to Cosette, a father. her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, "Where it went?" CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I only for me. That said, he crossed me off." itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of "What, my child?" It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal And who, with gentle hands, do clear old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him me." with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, This is what people thought they had noticed:-- not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing God. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august. In order Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION wretch" seemed difficult to her. a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. Marius was slender and readily passed through. though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In soul. admit it. There is a moral grandeur; we hold to that. Thoughtless and Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- She murmured:-- arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues remain happy. -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but And off he went. gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at illusions. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than remained wide open. are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels bit into it, muttering:-- moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE "Yes," replied the mother. The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, fold it." Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was the three persons seated at the table. him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The sphinx. she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she not wish to pay, troubled as he was. door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon from head to foot. myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters had left no trace in his mind. Not the slightest. The dramatic poet the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that "Me! me! me!" vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of He knelt beside Cosette's bed. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." We have mentioned a lancer. It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful He tapped again. came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he "440." King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "to remain unmarried."] toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the 56 (return) [ that to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her description that he gave: louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. Jean Valjean reached the outlet. grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point Marius:-- the Tiber.] foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, muttered: "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and lighted?" droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was the rose? on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. pain at the heart. all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it not a dock-yard." "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven id="linknoteref-61">61 enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his Cosette thought him mad and obeyed. conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is her guess was correct: the doctor approved. [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes times. aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. "In a hackney carriage." It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. It was a dog's kennel. let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful man!" himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the "Father!" said she. CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY "What is that?" inquired the child. cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one "What, really? You are sure?" conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his two upper ones." taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath