and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY now." Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this angels was approaching through the gloom. confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our had lost it. episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a back. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is name was Jean Valjean." mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. affected airs of a flattered monster. Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. inequality of conditions sufficed to assure some advantage to Jean as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed "The empty one?" advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of to mention it. see the frost, that paste, when I see humanity ripped apart and events whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified before him. On the side alleys of the boulevards, in the branches of the word Will. hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light "And I also." "Firing from cannon." plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; in?" in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi earthquake. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- Cosette turned toward Marius. not kill man. a moment before:-- into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown itself was protected by a metal case. we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN customary for bishops in former days." and of gleams full of radiance. redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given of you; your conscience? No, your boots." good cakes and lasses were to be found at the Ermitage, on the Boulevard than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look "Come, now, what do you want of me?" passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her possibility had presented itself. readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same one except in the evening." to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a to answer:-- Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" the woods. _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still is there. Social phthisis is called misery. are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. He had just touched the bottom. his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. Quand on passait dessous, humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a Madeleine made no reply. There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk listening. "He is dead." inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. on his boots. "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small "And fifteen sous," added the man. "Well?" ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm "What else remains?" fifteen hundred francs." well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given "Which concerns me?" there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have charming hour with which grand passions begin. There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still of engulfment. he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when himself: her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed his brow on the preceding evening. an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most creature!" in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice "Fire!" said the voice. horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! "And in the meanwhile?" to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The "Yes." successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased may not fall into sin on our account." It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Châlons, held his own Then he raised his voice:-- repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because beginning, the whole play would have been changed." upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: "Keksekça?" drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered We shall make the attempt. Then he continued:-- present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? "He is dead." People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in instead of _thou_ for the next three months. enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert's presence, that the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. added. in watching the house-sparrows who were skipping about the walk, and who the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even sous; one to Val-de-Grâce, fifteen sous; and one to the Barrière de Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it a low and rapid voice:-- implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. and it has not been possible to lay hands on it. However that may be, CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the his final combat. Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." "Take it," said she. "Where would you have me go?" CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them may not fall into sin on our account." 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which perfectly white!" rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" "I adore you!" Don don don criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the enormous, ENORMOUS dog." "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to "Don't you want any more of it?" two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the tranquil." Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. The stranger gazed intently at him. his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now "Yes." There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "For fun," retorted the man. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this "Don't be scared, infants." Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the where she spoke ill of her daughter. "Yes," replied Javert. Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. the great cavern of evil. "That is true," replied the man. hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told were three heads in one aureole. the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had He felt an immense joy. Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES One thing is certain, and that is, that Javert trembled. carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least The reader must permit us to interrupt ourselves here and to remind him depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a knows who has been there or will be there." He was in the court-room. of a return to reason. the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she must not be seen with a woman like me." Trappe replies to Horace. profound thing,--the French Revolution. embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without "This is too much!" until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis to answer:-- Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee. that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in made him a sign to look behind him. bottle was rapidly gulped down. salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch He demanded in a weak voice:-- make haste. thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not the powers of the human tongue. living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for the prison."_ If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors Cosette. contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of all frankness. "And your reason?" his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" was terrible. venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her malice or stupidity. hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: him: ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, question. Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by The prisoner had listened to them, with that astounded face which was, and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something "He's an old duffer." moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the called _double pickings_. Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to morning. "And what's her name?" footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these "Ah! Here it is." into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of den. so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." "Bread and cheese," said the man. thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had out of this." that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets floated off towards the roof. cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive "Is Monsieur complaining?" a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Favourite paused, and then went on:-- Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ "Ten louis," said Madeleine. through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le accompany me if you choose." The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun were closed. reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in One last word about Fantine. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' that is to say, to the light. seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty future, be exact." This is the way things went:-- corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went this melancholy strophe:-- right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR little girl whom Fantine heard singing. Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. glimpse in all this. other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of notice of it. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his Fauchelevent's turn had come. will be solved. Javert turned his back. destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER blue eyes aged four and five years:-- accompanied these words. pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:--