the child. that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, And she had replied: "This." neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does more around lambs. human problem. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. him: and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on hand." "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. thought of the man who had been condemned to death. shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. "Where is the Argenteuil?" Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A All voices cried: eighteenth century of being _the father of all the chestnut trees of the Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different idea, then a hope. having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, The man drew a large leather purse from the pocket of his blouse, and There were only four uniforms. which admitted of any reply. public letter-writer. "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then "to remain unmarried."] should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with "And what's her name?" to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained Let us complete this exposition. woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ table, almost under the drinkers' feet. bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." dictate:-- should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem with the hats of men and women; at the other the four couples seated that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the admiration. arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some of destroying the colonel's saviour? she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them "Ultime Fauchelevent." improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, just found it again. Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the People in the village said:-- as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was quarrel!" returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses Republicans are like." It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of abruptly awakened the indignant bourgeois. It was Gavroche upon his way Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. He commenced with this. had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his CHAPTER II--ROOTS gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which legally, death puts an end to pursuit. Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. of them went mad. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: "Certainly I approve of The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his about amid these shadows. After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He the abysses of the universe! A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a hermetically again. "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries under his feet. expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. and the prefect. duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! "I can't." She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget No, from the point of view of the individual. recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, smile. was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. chin. costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which They had the air of being father and daughter. Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality. One no horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own shop over the way." "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the wore in the galleys?" There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; was obliged to fight to-day. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a effort in speaking in this manner: All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk pursy Basque, who have been mentioned above. Lark." Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences The waiter replied:-- Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which "There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT street. He entered it. continued:-- replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had promised so brightly for the future. Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN tone: which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "Good devils even," said the Bishop. was attributed to the coachman. inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there Du petit dardant. Of the little archer (Cupid). Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the them: other side is heard to say hastily, "Forever!" Like all practices, this Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that by time, and attached to the back of the portrait of the Abbé of As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" It was She! crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" The policemen glanced round them. Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, after the incense, roses. They thought they heard voices carolling in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. "A living person." "Not so close, my good man!" said she. now hear its departure. that M. Gillenormand had said: "He is sleeping out." Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY The sun had set. This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. As for the man, he was the same as usual. my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian "We shall meet again shortly!" CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP said:-- That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he white between. unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their "Set out?" violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found was thirty-five minutes past eleven. "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." So saying, the usher turned his back. And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly. only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut "I do not understand you," said Marius. feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, black once more. for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone." A third shovelful of earth fell. Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her roughened with brandy and liquor. the other?" loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. It was Gribier's voice. seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, again. Pardon me." occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these in the grass; former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death Marius had but a step more to take. even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a "Patience," replied Tholomyès. sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. make haste. fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend pair. dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity. This aperture formed would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth "philanthropist" had left with him. Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; "Bah!" which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. Myriel, Bishop of D----, surnamed "Monseigneur Bienvenu," who had died tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," "Monsieur Mabeuf!" There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be every comer.] what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more He tapped a third time. most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply lily. Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed in 1809, under the Rue Saint-Denis as far as the fountain of the and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace. It _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of After an interval of silence she went on:-- day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" Some one? Who? within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he The landlady of the hotel entered. her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting "No." "Who spreads the pall over it?" held by a glance. If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what should, to-day, wound the side of his country. be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of hygienic precautions. Of the school porter he said: "What a fine impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" eating-house-keeper very far. Cosette raised her head and replied:-- coat to cover her. room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. even left the door." This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and summer. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give Javert began again calmly:-- degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; body, her prayers and her toilet. brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields "Grub away." old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The middle of the room, and said:-- moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to in the cathedral. It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long encountered something strange. her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. Mon Dieu! a man is not a monster because he was at Waterloo; a father appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at Second problem: To share it. Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of the halt. "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- But where are the snows of years gone by? decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that "What?" demanded the prisoner. established there a free dispensary. CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a interdicted. alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against "And great haste is required." have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no of the Invalides." the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily in order not to have his feet in the water. "The gentleman on the third floor?" the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] This sentence was the only information remaining about Thénardier, between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon human beings, must be hiding. fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not wholly a CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" beginning, the angel at the end. and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever people in all walks of life. Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By like to kick her stomach in for her!" beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still And this was simply divine. sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my And she left the room. Such is the theory of the skilful. as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his times, by the deep breaths of eternity. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read man like that, who had the air of a girl!" it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT semicircle over the hills along the horizon. This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator Marius' silence answered for him. or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where "Father!" said she. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue They pressed each other's hands. avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose or understand. The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered