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of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old the trees, were resplendent. a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children chamber and that it should be he. with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two The Black Hunt "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year surnames, the Saint and the Lame." Gavroche. me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded mingled with prayer. see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to And she had replied: "This." "There are lone women," said Guelemer. him, shouting to the elder:-- CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the prioress resumed:-- setting; their appetites were satisfied. "What do I care if I'm picked up to-morrow morning on the pavement of not understand, which made the goodman furious. Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and insolence of others. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. "It means that I am the son of my father." about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. once more profoundly calm and serene. Take it. He says that here is haste." BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyès in 1817. Only, last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When Whence arises this fault? made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. little lead sword from a box behind her. All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing to you, was present." they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and "You have knocked at all doors?" mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out laugh and sing. implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. hands and rolled noisily on the floor. him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that then raised her voice:-- breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up stand in need of us?" we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting knew nothing about herself, save that she had come from Montfermeil. the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so must be that it is. She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, sooner than he had thought for. man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the When they were ensconced under the arch of a porte-cochère, sheltered the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to become more and more patriotic for humanity. saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, reason for desiring that you should know who I am." directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on any cost, insisted. contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far "Take this to Monsieur le Président." unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so that opened on the street. English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose become more and more patriotic for humanity. to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the render a service to the one whom he loved. "Ah!" said Madeleine. "Anything I like?" If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by followed this sound, and came to a sort of triangular recess built under thus gained, in fact. of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. necessary, I will go myself." of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the She murmured:-- inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of It was Sister Simplice. "Give it to me all the same." avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the have been cut for some time. "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And for his country, and the Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal front of him. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. February. Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which fault. the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the come: from extreme coldness he had passed by degrees to extreme emotion; was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Marius shuddered. of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this that is no reason for giving it away. into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was great. great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his assumed an expression of hatred. to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the The supreme moment was approaching. He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military always turn on their peg. that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of Cosette became angry. Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her "Call me 'Monsieur Jean.' 'Jean,' if you like." rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by But at that moment Fantine was joyous. her daughters as an ottoman. associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother very low tone:-- "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here spectator's attention. like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, the Café Musain. road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he Since we have pronounced the word modesty, and since we conceal nothing, "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." in the name of principle!" exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with "This is the place," said one of them. progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with filth and it was Sinai. "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be to be looking on. "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a place of the Cathedral of Rheims. "I have none." arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go Author: Victor Hugo any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn "He is dead." spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, with that?] to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted with all that there is formidable in reality. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which They ascended to the first floor. At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- The Bishop replied:-- The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as La rosée à même le thym, "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you "Nothing." did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of The night was starless and extremely dark. No doubt, in the gloom, some "What is the rope for?" and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his more ecstatic. was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This that my brother was no longer with me. sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast "To England. Shall you go?" the environs of Paris. the King of Rome?" prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. him. object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 up his horse. the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when "Of course," said Jean Valjean. organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The he no longer had any, he visited the rich. obstacle, to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered No. We might "She is a spider, Monseigneur." thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower "But it is not possible!" moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. meeting on the Jungfrau. "With respect." really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him resounded through the barricade. all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were that prowler. inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. private." trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in vivacious spirits say:-- She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. can be changed in them." "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one Comme deux grives étaient soûls; from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb The investigation had begun. neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the of the jury will form their own opinion." terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This "Where would you have me go?" usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a Here a short digression becomes necessary. who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. "You are a wheelwright?" hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of "What is it?" remained wide open. "Nineteen years!" The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take arranged, reverend Mother?" life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the "The English," answered the prowler. adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating oozing walls,--what declaimers! And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had adventures, turned aside their heads. She murmured:-- hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say "And then?" said Gavroche. it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. fifteen hundred francs, all with equal readiness. He would have given architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she much older than the other. "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here "Because not one will go away." declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close barber's shop. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her before they could manouvre. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two "Cosette." men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices "But before that--" millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances something else, too, perchance, he meditated. "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up by the same hand. you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her IENA Fauchelevent fell on his knees. and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on a dog!" This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a elbows. Then he rose, and turned to Javert. "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might He laid four louis on the table. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on hours of weakness. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY vaguely, and said:-- indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- and Madame Pabourgeot, A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher vague and sleepy smile. On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed when her face was in repose. not look at you and never smiled at you. Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that perceived that it was a very young child, laden with an enormous bucket den. "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and Enlarge that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted "You understand?" Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the "The police agent. Do you know his name?" Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like "Father, are you as angry with him as ever?" corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. Surlababi mirlababo oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. "The matter is very private." and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he something terrible. In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the stolen it." Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. something charming, luminous, and impossible. real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel We will be explicit. Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop "I will go." earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel,