When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh strange for such services, honorable manners. glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the francs, and his handkerchief. same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and pinioned, he helped him to drink. man. a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. Marius could not repress a cry of joy. cobbler!" Forward march. stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." No one and every one. and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington "Are you sure of it?" break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" "No." When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. The forest surrounding the Abbey of Villiers sheltered these unfortunate hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be all these happy people. The door opened. "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother "I shall have a ladder for these children." tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. decked. God may give me his loveliest star; I prefer the child thou hast profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. to other copies of Project Gutenberg-tm works. million for the town and its poor. Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, "You wish it?" the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action "No, it is the bourgeoisie." he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost REVOLUTIONIST Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP There is no more beautiful legend in existence." The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for measures and calculations with his eyes. Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not village that he had studied for the priesthood. bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; The "lass" was a grave. with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when "Say--" foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. "Immediately?" exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none Pontmercy. It will not be for long." The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." relics of the past. It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in other." attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated distance. He read:-- "That is well." Tholomyès paused. Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On formidable shrug of the shoulders. fortify him in his resolution. emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé Courfeyrac replied: strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal silence. M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint his forefinger gently with his thumb. "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does with the infinity on high, is called praying. While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their Lama, you peoples of the west, who have mingled with your fashions and "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. arms and said:-- which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this with him when he departed. offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible feel how hot my hands are!" The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden up his horse. drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching. forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many M. Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this "You knocked him over cheap," said he. "I am going to the barricades." As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He strangling is! chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young "The grave-digger." mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His raving. there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. performed in the spring, was saying:-- She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, to have been recently turned up. In vain. old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to my head." what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old had been there:-- official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER She began again:-- "Embrace me." immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that disease which must be cured, how? By light. was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its for to-day; but I will not answer for to-morrow." Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly near, with melancholy undulations. a black hole. suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She laid him low on the pavement. This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on "I will learn English and German." among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin bucket, and set out again. smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not that opened on the street. barricade lay. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things appearance once more in the opening. The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. "See here now! Art thou coming?" mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, above. stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something face. his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet about in search of shelter. honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; sound. "Le roi Coupdesabot dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments a gentle voice:-- his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds idea! that Javert was a hundred leagues from suspecting the truth; that life!" fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below door. order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall The bell struck a second time. he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and Here Marius found the answer. Because that man was a fugitive from Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "Don't you see his air?" VOLUME III--MARIUS. holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little Service was written _servisse_. which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, Zétulbé, come reign o'er my soul,"--and it was heard two or three security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You "In this cab," said Marius. bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made "He is warning us," said Combeferre. sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of beginning, the angel at the end. of his comrades. your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that of enthusiasm. like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death written the following:-- of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with ought to keep them on all the time." forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." liberalism. acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier much as his cravat:-- be seen from the street. He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an "It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. though it did not hurt him. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen door fall heavily to behind her. There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." What verses? These:-- the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in in the sky. Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of +------------------------------------------------------------+ a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you clap of thunder. doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, had probably become bankrupt through the hard times, and that he was whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what "Where is Monsieur going?" Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm "Not for you, father." "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are candlesticks. Take them." old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch archbishop. They had stopped crying. We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite unprecedented one to him. bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. Enlarge heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The "I have the address." the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged guilty of the fault of going straight. not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, "I have ten francs left," said Marius. "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous! Go to bed "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. night. with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing centenarian as erect as a young man. children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The prowling about the neighborhood. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. "Yes." CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day in?" him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could "Who was your leader?" were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of Thénardier would scold and beat her. And he continued to advance. And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After there are no fortunate. Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. porters, you eat truffles, you eat asparagus at forty francs the bunch Courfeyrac's door. sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of night. country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his "Why?" affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE combat. turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with Then he exclaimed:-- ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast "Fifty sous--three francs."