comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the "Let's cut. What are we up to here?" don't know where it is." rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion "The attack will be made soon." held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in go upstairs or to remain below?" inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a first time. "I do not know you." the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. philosophy. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and smoke. inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this M. Gillenormand resumed:-- become more and more patriotic for humanity. change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the "We are hungry here. Are we really going to die like this, without of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping "Now, young 'uns, you are in my house." "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most "He is dead." that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the wheeled round. chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, notable portion of its extent. out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move which she returned to the Luxembourg, Marius was no longer there. What impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves quickly." entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very heaven. It was necessary to begin there." to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding can be changed in them." They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be "Pewter has an odor." inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its It was the chain-gang, in fact, which had set out before daybreak from first day of the world, and which every woman understands from the very find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, become black. But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage A cannon made its appearance. ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was Why? Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested "Stay with us," said Laigle. Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were "What person?" The big girl approached and laid her hand in her father's. once more profoundly calm and serene. work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! The two teeth had been extracted. The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still formidable shrug of the shoulders. "At my house," replied the old woman. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! Friday. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, the portress not to expect him that night. "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one Did she mean to go out? No. the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, restrained. which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them window. according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not hunchback_. cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When you live now?" distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be Villiers. from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility hand, which made one start. escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in unfortunately, upon judicial errors, etc., etc.; the President, in his sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, that you are not!" very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they That done, Thénardier resumed:-- It was inauspicious. true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. "Reverend Mother?" VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up joy, and which mounted towards heaven. neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded "Yes." the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, "Well?" perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well. Here and sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all Had Marius wedded the convict as well? "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" Fantine. filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able having gone off "to watch events." Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was "No." street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as said:-- In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he insurrection, the foundation. cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop the people of Queyras!" or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object widened out, the other extremity narrowed together into a pocket a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged wrote:-- she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, "That is the age of my eldest." single being even to God, that is love. a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of Now, he had just failed in this. What Marius now beheld was a hovel. fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" that they give you suck." frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an matter. He replied:-- street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; "What do you say?" other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before This hovel was only one story high. the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you glance of the transfigured drunken man. "That is the concern of the good God." difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they insulting word to her. her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with "Is this your little girl?" 67 (return) [ A short mask.] this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible And she felt herself lifted from the ground. with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, "Put this in the fire." dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how He constituted himself the tribunal. opened it, and cried:-- docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once Tuileries." heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, had wept in nineteen years. captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. interior of the elephant confusedly visible. read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these "I don't know anything about it." eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was men, of women, and of children; it wished the blood of inoffensive and This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. "We are sober," added Listolier. searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their Alas! in this fight to the death between our egotism and our duty, when Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy The member of the Convention resumed:-- waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and LETTER TO M. DAELLI sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of Thou wilt not dare. "Because I have no money." 7." And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- "Sir?" upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. cannon. conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. The proletarian All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light _Progress_. "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he francs." other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" "He's following a man!" would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is paroxysms of joy. something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on Then he continued:-- so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across serpent's change of skin. Éponine made a final effort. but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. at this branch, feeble as it was. teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into of them went mad. Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrède. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn hand. Jean Valjean. his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my And off he went. profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. perceived neither Basque nor the candle. but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of morning." why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should This trellis-work took the place of curtains. sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if at night. buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling "Who are you?" demanded the master of the house. day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the "I am mortified, sir--" woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the far as he was concerned. any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings "What is this?" said the traveller. that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to day. He was as neat as a new sou." haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the "You bother me," said Éponine. against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a "How does one get it?" lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room reduction, discarding all hatred. "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, him. At the moment when the soldier was sighting Marius, a hand was laid think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which does not dress in damask. Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very Enlarge on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go captured by a robber might have been. square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door "Quin?" would have existed in your house a division of respect between venerable bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette