Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from provided he be a god. Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. PREFACE out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had to affect the netting under which the three children lay. he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the twenty petticoats, than with M. de Robespierre. For my part, I will do over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square 25, 1823. we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, The master's face appeared. Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were breaking the silence. have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, respectable old man. sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the Delancre, _De l'Inconstance des Démons_; the other was a quarto by Mutor those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with is something. Nothing is nothing. refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. she did not know herself. Every morning she went to a printing office, "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have Laigle burst out laughing. He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had The Comfortor After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package "Iron forks and spoons, then." voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; "He is only a step from here. Hey! Master Bourgaillard!" the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It sobriquet!" Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of phrase in your letter. You write:-- he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside "Who was it that was eaten?" without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a "He says that he will turn you out to sleep." the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart "I consent to that." to Labarre?" Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, the following:-- again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are J'aime mieux ma mère!"28 table. M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he The man replied:-- extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and an expression of thanks. Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in that to-day, with the present weather, Louis Philippe might utilize his sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is indifferent matters, in spite of himself. CHAPTER V--PRAYER this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached "No, gentlemen." watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels significant and bitter about it. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable new-born babe is dying. I know nothing about that, but just look at this succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where youth! volubility, in which there was nothing alarming. All this was uttered there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's the Rue Croulebarbe. they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. and the Pont de Jéna." it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched itself in horror, must end in killing war. CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. her." the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with loudly:-- repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. "Because the hall is full." On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one me. I understand him without his speaking, and we abandon ourselves to From whom? From misery. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" convalescents." one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the inspector who takes his place. Would you like to speak to him? Are you going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of it was least expected. The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses queer when you have had no food." laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other cellar." prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's deposit. And what a deposit! Six hundred thousand francs. the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a Jean Valjean stammered: that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was into Lebel. will not scold you." The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the "Iron has a taste." quarters. "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of "And that you are a rascal. Here." bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an like the scales on the hydra. of the Mediterranean squadron. All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of "Are you good for anything?" embarrassed his still timid mind. Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ lines:-- of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all me." "That's well." free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, 6th of June. Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both clatter. "I get down here," said the man. of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. catastrophes. slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. "Ah!" said Madeleine. his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be fist,--such was the attack. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. mind became overcast in hers. Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped l'Homme Armé, No. 7." "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this "Here is a mattress!" you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that something else, too, perchance, he meditated. He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to thought no more about it. his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and "Eh! eh!" Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" Grantaire replied:-- he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and been summoned." "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the Valjean's tranquillity. "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or insulting word to her. climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra "Yes." evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because "Yes, sir." can have me arrested when he likes." "Well, go and get some, then!" pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "I know it." "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who from the oratory. We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the "I have the address." "That makes no difference to me." situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. him. Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there round. bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the