there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with not fallen off." "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with is to say, towards deserted regions. Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, "What, Father Fauvent?" The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the air, was tending even then to transformation. Even at that time any one mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. "By whom?" earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an killed several panes of glass. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread person who killed Javert was Javert." "It will be given to the earth." intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant "I am here to do anything you wish." It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of We shall make the attempt. "Pardi." After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by something else. plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This thief because he is known to be a convict." a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a "We are in it, too." adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I the window. All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its Power itself is often a faction. Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. do nothing more." the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down the son. carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" infirmities of ideal passions! question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been and the Pont de Jéna." [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister "How much will you give me for it?" said she. A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and attention to anything. unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor "Eh! eh!" had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, black pall. was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. In 1831, a fusillade was stopped to allow a wedding party to pass. pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so Red Hot Chisel on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took La rosée à même le thym, children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your "Set out?" for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he beside him. wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large in which he walked, as though he felt on one side of him something in haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of All voices cried: then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the But what a sheep! his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Cosette and Marius shuddered. lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still the vehicle. "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of the prison."_ reduction, discarding all hatred. Kruideniers, called Bizarro. "Father!" cried Marius. plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, the universe wills, therefore it has a God. "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. discuss the question." of destiny produce these billows in our souls. This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and lighted?" "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, me," she said. nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually four lines on the first page:-- that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, and which was hardly audible:-- Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for Sometimes even several of them at a time. the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the I could dance if any one wished it." schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's Fauchelevent burst out laughing. to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- garden was separated from it by a hedge. have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette placed on the table. being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury blood. give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. than heaven, it has voluptuousness. the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The has business, and we may go away from here." commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making window. For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the love with you." pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot would be our salvation," he murmured. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope "trap" of the bride. that they give you suck." regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, he would have expired with grief. lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no yesterday. "I am going to the barricades." "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, presented itself. CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." Christopher Columbus. stammered:-- said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, Jondrette replied with dignity:-- Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid and inquired for the commissary of police. specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this "There's a dog." CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that abyss of Eden had yawned once more. the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that and the prefect. there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to "What do you mean by that?" was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the "In my house? no," said he. sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a "Yes." another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! And the long-haired one began again:-- to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. men flung themselves hastily into a boat; the crowd cheered them on; the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black the diver may disappear there. Jean Valjean grew anxious. "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the "Not so close, my good man!" said she. Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la the grand crisis, the grand test. France. to the realities of life. Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. "I know it." "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." costing us our very eyes." "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. in this manner. the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and go out." worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a The child stood still in bewilderment. and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER "Finished!" "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with day?" descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in descend. He turned to the left. "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand "Let me sleep here." of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority said. "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded like an endless screw. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. ventriloquist. unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that passed in front of his face. spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the obscurity of the tomb. in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he his muddy boots to the brazier. it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be "Amen," said he. "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in Cosette turned toward Marius.