le Maire is here." been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but quarter of an hour to die. Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, they were making sport of him. him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced bier. quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five being sketched out. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh closed again. and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST It seemed to him as though he might be seen. The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would descend. He turned to the left. phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which His confidence having increased, he added:-- _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, He kissed her brow. woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. is called fever." "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that houses. old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all telescope. he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic passing the place of execution. saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, "Do not call me father." fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights "I know him." "Why did you not bring it at once?" old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. reader will remember, nailed up. days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his adventure. "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme meant to scratch, and she lacerated. was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine remained classic:-- man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried inexorable dignity: the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme Marius looked at the thumb. placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. human irresponsibility is mingled with them. regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on enormous, ENORMOUS dog." nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes him.23 himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his said to him:-- "It's black." than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible afterwards? love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to on his brow. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. "What's this?" she exclaimed. marriage. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed "Is that what you want?" she demanded. stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in No one and every one. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live One day she received from the Thénardiers a letter couched in the Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the front of that vision of joy. it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. barricade, and...." augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to lied abominably. decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of the key." your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted "No." Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the event of the worst, Thermopylæ. their liberty as one would speak of his health. A man under arrest is a extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The hospital, it was not known where or when. he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was gray of the sky. on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the a moment before:-- href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that things. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What trap; the barricade did not reply. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the trace of that hideous vision remained. in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy Rome sets the example for these things as well as for others. quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus worth?" The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that dans peu tu te maries."