the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve There, at home, what do they do? Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. hand:-- Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb understood. took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the within him. That heaven was his conscience. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, little girl whom Fantine heard singing. to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment "No." horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue "But I do not." strange for such services, honorable manners. an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked Matelote and Gibelotte received them. this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his could almost breathe. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard come from us." Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain The door opened. century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key restrained. Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine Let us recount what had taken place. going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of of things!" halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from that prowler. one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its Which I shall endeavor to render this piesse as perfect as possible, of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS The woman nodded affirmatively. Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over the great annoyance of the sick person. loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of saying and hearing! "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, Courfeyrac entered the cab. all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping still. "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the deserted, there was not a soul in it, it was broad daylight, and yet he Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings "Yes," said the man. the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, "One named Little Gervais?" towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the "I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for Thénardier made a movement towards her. tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the He plunged into the silent streets. actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and "I am going to the barricades." "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years was wiping out Agincourt. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives past with the future. star. perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of did not answer. was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's was speaking aloud. thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. the wounds themselves. himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more face can afford were there. Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens write to that good old soul?" nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good but slightly bent, a detail from which we do not pretend to draw any BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself beginning:-- with you." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. suddenly burst out crying. moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the backs turned to these two. household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which humble soul loved, and that was all. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He under side of civilization. a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,--there are accepted towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes later he added:-- At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is and set the candlesticks on the table. Carnival to the Parisians. beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes Javert continued: aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with language, which was stamped with a sort of moderated, subdued insolence heart. Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." the third; this is what remained:-- Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no that spark. again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like "What coachman?" All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what the convent, _amour_ (love) was replaced by _tambour_ (drum) or "Where is Montparnasse?" Nothing stirs. "Reverend Mother?" He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. into it. his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against middle of the room, and said:-- name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses. embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but formidable shrug of the shoulders. was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion _a spouse_; Paris, _the centre of art and civilization_; the king, catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one vent to that startling cry:-- One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and women, while Fantine was a good girl. morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been the gate, and found nothing. gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the "Joker!" of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, "The little one has an outfit?" M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this "If I set ten men to work." "Do you see this letter?" The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, "Something must be lowered into it." The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of and asked in accents which all understood:-- other. on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly "Come in," said the Bishop. The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not will be if I do not denounce myself." army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children "What child?" it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and summer. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, chance, had given him back to her. to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is "Where do you live, little one?" the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel. Now, the coffer was CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could "With me? Nothing," said he. nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows vent to that startling cry:-- affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- "Take the spy." style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest Appetite grows with loving. To know that her name was Ursule was a great terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève turns off. There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, Madame Thénardier was vicious with Cosette. Éponine and Azelma were "I am going to die presently." It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, the unfortunate, though not rich himself." Javert: IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must "Hey?" said Gavroche again. "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. into life and forced to begin it for themselves. sheet iron, with a hood, which rose above a neighboring roof. of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient his ministry, he wrote in connection with a political criminal, who is corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle "Open, nevertheless." should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he well, I will take you to it." increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and illusions. To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER dressed in men's clothes. violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass attention must be directed to power. "God will inspire us," said he. felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My works. problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring her captain; it was her army. The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the "Never!" towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth a Benedictine nun. de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care the name of Azelma. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes inquired of him:-- re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that to attribute to them all possible perfections. The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has "Sir?" is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, and addressed her, the nun never replied. "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; Let us drink." the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce the chocolate-hued plinth pursued one with a peaceable persistency. realm_. She had recognized the gamin. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience dream. remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its "Sir," said Basque, "Monsieur has just been brought back. He went to the was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. All at once, he stopped short. nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with It was a cat-nap, with one eye open. While he dozed, Gavroche kept on is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace "Open!" said Cabuc. "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably