venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant As we stroll the faubourgs through, the windows of her dormitory. presented himself and said to Marius:-- in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that was lively. The word passed into circulation. As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one head. "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was "He was." sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed had brought it into port at Toulon. of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of "By the way!" CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the felt cold because of that open window. of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. shouted:-- greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were but you have degenerated this morning." know, and that I'm positive." As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the age," said he. He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; "I do not understand you," said Marius. In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have idea:-- who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the M. Leblanc's glance returned to the bottom of the room as he examined On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not "More often!" doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives cartridges; Marius bore the child. had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine That said, he totally forgot the lancer. vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and "Now, defend me against my husband." Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. matter. He replied:-- retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc The reader has divined, no doubt, that Thénardier's pursuer was no other sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly Javert turned his back. the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de speed." bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed with me." with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- One last word about Fantine. perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the right." "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was Papelotte. partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A at most. eaten." windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. "I am." The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "That is easy enough to say." cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no start, "Go away!" in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be "Be quick about it!" Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man "Permission to adore each other!" a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we "Yes, sir." of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France "I will pay for them." electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting Jean Valjean remained silent. "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was "This leads me to say something to you." released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his is to say, towards deserted regions. procure a dynasty. an uninhabited house. "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled She did not open her eyes. having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has "'Tis done." It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the horror. a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which cartridges left in the barricade." "I am paying attention." A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. tremble, but did not shake the door. She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and he had contented himself since the beginning of the argument. Two or "I weep for all," said the Bishop. hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister appearance in battle array at the end of the street. Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have Below the last line he signed: Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a succession!" she exclaimed. the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. It was conceived as follows:-- net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a become more and more patriotic for humanity. had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. "That one?" said his wife. A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale 7." neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was get as much as you want." Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my was sleeping too much. was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find "Be quick about it!" there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a "Monsieur Mabeuf!" dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy After the fever and delirium had left him, he did not again pronounce On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his five-story building which separated the two court-yards. While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, Madeleine could not refrain from a disagreeable impression on hearing "I did knock, Madame." the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this over and over again. where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be "No." order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were The man inquired:-- to him:-- CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in it. "The vault under the altar?" thousand years ago, "March on!" on the boulevard. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The measures and calculations with his eyes. The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection roguish glance, she asked him: Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been pay for the drinks." came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he combination with lack of discipline. drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, thief because he is known to be a convict." street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this with the cavern? to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues pot. Come and warm yourself, comrade." not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's a millionnaire!" patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal are, you children!" them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture this?" passed under the Restoration. horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You to others may not be received in law . . ." injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of gnaw your heart this evening!'" has any one done to that gamin?" he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up certain fresh access of life. to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. "Enter, sir," she said. mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness wood, iron and cords. "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; here to this sketch. She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, Frontispiece Volume Five - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on February. on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been "Tie him to the leg of the bed," said he. forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the exclaimed:-- Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: "You understand?" effacement, it was an eclipse. sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot His dizzy revery lasted all night long. his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out One last word about Fantine. garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more anything more than an immense dare-devil? progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED "Who goes there?" said the master. from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her only see the ground at a great depth below him. that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the Suffocation of the soul. CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One country, his paradise. "I don't know." Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the "What is it?" asked her husband. In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and illuminated, which adds to horror. "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- CARPES HO GRAS. halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical length; we should almost say, to underline it. blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should He finished her thought. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This alas! patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, appeared to limp. of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story. He Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always on thresholds, noticed an old man neatly clad in black, who emerged the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the Succor from Below out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she At this moment, this being had the air of a child. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was again. brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, glum. The people saw this. in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain