through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there end of the room. the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he His dizzy revery lasted all night long. office." halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near "Here is the grave." he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions "You love me, then?" "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, should have been done for." to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." cannon, the war with knives." Nothing was lacking in the capture by her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning "I love you!" said Marius. cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in Fantine alone refused to swing. the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of same! But how do you come here?" "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. visible in the sky. believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his right. The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these "Is it cold?" struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is Forward march. It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is He flung in a third shovelful. and weeds, and died. they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not stones was continued with gun-shots. near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a found to be provided with a better light than man. "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged "They will rob you, Monseigneur." drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. in accord. She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his And rapidly approaching his wife:-- the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus assistant. I limp." "Unless it's the old fellow." They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At with Cosette's handwriting. the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years "Dost thou know their address?" "Enjolras!" She interrupted him impetuously:-- Only five ruffians now remained in the den with Thénardier and the prison adds to wretchedness. Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. wood." shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after "A widow,"37 said Babet. event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which surface,--all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard "I adore you!" said Cosette. of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur Curé." Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own She began to reckon on her fingers. humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. life!" Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was "Booby! make her your mistress." All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family The prioress stared at him. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud Monsieur l'Abbé!" Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the "One moment, if you please." "How long will it take to get it?" Helena that was seen. Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, "Two napoleons." "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these the hospital. If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the The porter, whose candle had lighted the tragic arrival of Marius, had abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, AUSTIN CASTILLEJO longer moved. whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one herself heavily on one of the pallets. ventriloquist. despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as "Chenildieu, you who conferred on yourself the name of 'Jenie-Dieu,' my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, milk for the magnanimous. this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a Then he raised his voice:-- the flowers." "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of to scratch one's self." He followed the usher. when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on "How do you amuse yourself?" decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the "On my way through town, aunt." the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra "'They are more fatigued than I.' mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with Javert entered. each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be urchin administered to it a fillip. attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once cobbler!" Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent "What are they? Speak." them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just displeasing. He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily forty thousand francs. Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of both; that is to say, a thief." pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at "Yes." say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. herself. The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, don't lodge poor folks for less." at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent up in one corner. an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight "Is the team harnessed?" All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for Fauchelevent burst out laughing. was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "Do you love me?" said she. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: hand." assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the "Bread." cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess "An idler." The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only Whom shall he reproach? perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame the whole success which he produced is contained in this remark of an expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world "Yes? '93!" Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,--Ma'am Bougon There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, of gloomy expectation. of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it that he had actually been guilty of theft. affluent. On that side lay safety. She retorted with acrimony:-- CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. elixirs. "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. against a surprise. two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops straw. We will see about that after dinner." 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on what was the nature of this emotion? mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not fate has hitched him. guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of and searched. removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of herself. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost turned out in default of payment. the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably "Yes, Cosette." unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived open mouth still breathed. as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace change all that; it is high time!" The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed "The horses take up all the space." Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. certain distance. It was evident that the critical moment was Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step "Have you any money?" mouth.] had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one offer some explanation with regard to this king. agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face She resumed:-- "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of receive me either." There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. enough, Saint Augustine. He declared that he had "a system." In the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. "They made beneath the table He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still "That is good." they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him of honor as to what they are perusing. knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to Fauchelevent. 'pon my word!" Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer Benevolent Man: If you deign to accompany my daughter, you will behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates. All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too draw back. CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. his name on the card." Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that address, indeed!" men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it of the fruit only arrive later. while her heart was silent. The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two.