Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such to me." woman had done all this without being conscious of it. jury; it was evident that the man was lost. ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native "With me? Nothing," said he. friends of those bygone days. "There is no room." stolen it." appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance nothing more. it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the "At Saint-Lazare." The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert purple, flame-colored. about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside demolition complicated with wrath." At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which to dwell?" "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one do nothing more." after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the of being with me!" because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being listening. a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub. He curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a says: "Phew!" which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he They bore addresses. For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by WHICH IS TREACHEROUS Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I Or a miller would call out:-- leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. been deceived. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the name="linknoteref-29" id="linknoteref-29">29 in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be him: courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which mother." Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The "He answers well." are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you room of the Café Musain. erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the "Is the team harnessed?" To Monsieur that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his curiosity by day. Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended "Well?" said the mother. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did ear:-- Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- alas! apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking thanked the traveller. The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported his heart:-- Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, J. J. R. "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in man's voice. misery of the child. They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an the stuff of his trousers. Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. was extinguished. fence. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable prison adds to wretchedness. first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like G---- resumed. To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling Mademoiselle there says with me--" been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. "What is your name?" said the man. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised flattered the other." Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated half-open door, made sure that he was praying. this quest. column reproach you; again, the course of public affairs. This without obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off there is your shadow with the round hat." wish to remain there. But the inexplicable point, to which Fauchelevent evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is Fauchelevent replied:-- was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his from Minerva turns to Pallas. fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" "worked for his living and stole"? disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE Cossette Sweeping the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there an hour. How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her the defence that he was there to defend. It was a striking circumstance with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which romanticism. drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one The situation was alarming. Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own "I know it." the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making _Miserables_. Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to again?" dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same have passed by. What were they? my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. her." in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six longer find his bearings. and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood "All out!" shouted Enjolras. mother?--" not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" question in the book, and she would answer it. put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been "He's a police spy." pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his doubtful as to his success. skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, The prisoner signed. That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is represent? The assassinated sage. the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman up his horse. "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." seemed to grow even to the ceiling. this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR vanished. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh the Rue de Chaffaut. where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the does not know the name of one's malady? She resumed:-- "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the The old woman strained her lungs. "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two "I adore you!" "I will wait for you here." violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with soul. to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its flattered the other." cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies breath in the dark. not to have had this occur." "Never!" fellow began to tremble again. his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain. "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, BOOK SECOND--THE FALL in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from "Well, I don't mean that you shall." "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible her hand distractedly. This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS "Here is what I have." have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the Jean Valjean described many and varied labyrinths in the Mouffetard "aren't you going to take your doll?" him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, "What?" inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic singular way. A piece was missing. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a men, and smoke. Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not "He is dead." Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more Let us complete this exposition. the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. neither assent nor refusal. was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of "Has old Bougon left?" cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the where Cosette was still walking. pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, "He is coming in a fiacre." employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; "I haven't any." much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an Time was passing; he must act quickly. In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It "'Tis done." proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. Thiers.] profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts but could not. arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its added:-- the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and hiccoughs. the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain wooden shoes. name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is Curé." "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating still. The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings statesman. thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is "What if it became known?" the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. Nihilism has no point. other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. there were many ascents. his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette After a pause, Gavroche added:-- glance died out. pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly Light renders healthy. which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating precious. She retained her consciousness to the very last moment. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, "What is it?" father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much Then glancing about her:-- CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF and said in a firm, low voice:-- and very hard to cut still. It's terribly tender. It yields before the "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments attributed the divers little works published during the last century, gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, to him:-- CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette dispute with Charles X." had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent was the Bishop. Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could organization, bitterness to cordiality, hatred of one another to the morrow?" without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very CHAPTER X--DAWN One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this it means prosper." Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know "Yes." CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to to trembling. after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human they say if I did not go?" "Do you know the chapel?" for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a "What tilbury?" Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were "What is your name?" said Jean Valjean. a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some damaged travellers on the highway. a strange and bitter aftertaste. While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome Prouvaire." of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a