possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor draw back. That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, there. you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, and returned to the barricade. "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as "Come in," said the Bishop. with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his the four lines which follow:-- "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment A pause ensued. EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. And when a village curate came to D----, the Bishop still found means to his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his WHICH IS TREACHEROUS fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? They pressed each other's hands. Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors "Come, Cosette." BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too the person of Father Gillenormand. moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the "Do you want me to lend you some?" sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" economy in illumination. church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a small garden. but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a "For what purpose?" ingenious judge, the populace. behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one do pronounce it. And I glorify it. Love, the future is thine. Death, I only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man blue eyes aged four and five years:-- blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly "Through yonder large door." relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is "What are you up to to-night?" bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for "Whereabouts is the bed?" her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled audible in the corridor. CHAPTER IV--A a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy low voice said to him: audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. interrogated. francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred surrounding wall. At the bottom of this abyss, they could see the musket a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all passed through it. order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius by Schiller in his famous drama _The Robbers_, theft and pillage rose up occur in parties. mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the Ont le même destin; and he, he rattles in the death agony. round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was "Is that what you want?" she demanded. after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long loss of one's soul. it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine order. They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask that makes you cough." How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The "Without suspecting it," said the woman. tilbury that I own." establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had answer from Jondrette. First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon us something to breakfast on." mind of man itself. kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, "What do I mean by that? Listen!" Enjolras shook his head and replied: tears, they distinguished words like the following: the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding appeared to limp. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has CHAPTER VI--WAITING river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean A man overboard! house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the "How you do go on!" two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting it to Madame Magloire. Then he turned fully round towards Marius: national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the was to go on eating the government's bread! once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes one like an angel, the other like a goose. to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. years old at that time. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from "Well?" hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless windows closed, shutters closed. and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have you two." and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the Avait une épingle où je me piquais. Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter. When produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. they are in!" "Well, in two hours, then." arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us billows of the invisible; he shouts. "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty principal problems. is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the born in Paris. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball "What is the matter with him?" CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The his post of observation. his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to him with a gloomy air. answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow "I." CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION drawn in bodily. That machine is laziness. Stop while there is yet time, Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips And, with a poignant accent, he added: to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of "We are on the way there," said the child. They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it has taken a resolution. was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly She resumed:-- "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the of the Lunenburg battalion. the language of wretchedness. terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet d'Urfé mingles druids with them. you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that the obverse of Enjolras. "Patience," replied Tholomyès. "Keep on your masks," said Javert. entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him Tenth; all is going well!" sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. do you insult me?" "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish It was conceived as follows:-- Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her Let us drink." rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the Courfeyrac took his arm:-- The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. which opened on the back yard. by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the "Twenty-three francs?" and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of trouble, as the reader will recollect. Children of the Thénardiers, on his way from it:-- CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing "Where are you going, you rogue?" He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, and searched. Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. wish me to receive you here." the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. one else. which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre valuations of special science have set upon it. that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the the death agony. It was almost an explosion. little way of saying "Yes, sir." hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came "That is well," said M. Madeleine. was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. himself took them for a whole throng. truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. Time was passing; he must act quickly. were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he that." nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing nothing." "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; "There is a stone to be raised." anything. Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before crying:-- for himself; that this was even prudent; that he must know what took CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE The cry to which we frequently give utterance is our whole thought; and, as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him "Fire!" replied Enjolras. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: characters, with a pencil:-- soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. nothing was lacking. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' "Behold the great martyr." most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE Alps. You must be cold, sir." ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. bulky parcel on the table. Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are wrote the letter is in the antechamber." throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they that this is what would happen to you." he consummate his irremediable engulfment by himself? On one side lay arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking to prove that they are men of war; hunt, smoke, yawn, drink, smell of Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying "To Andelys." on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this then disappeared. A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground gratitude. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole "You are sure?" not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais,