Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your him. these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere "A secret." the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him Gavroche. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a "Eh! eh!" "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is will be if I do not denounce myself." Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but "So, you will go?" the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be hand." Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step "Father! What are those men in those carts?" country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be "He is dead." the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "Is it cold?" account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT disdain the canonship. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something now it reappeared. hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless once more. du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes man's voice. charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the he. "More often!" thread.' education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the "Yes, reverend Mother." "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the Monsieur the Cardinal. As for your dear Sylvanie, she has done well in through. over and over again. that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her "It must be so; I am a knight, He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of possess no transition state. images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of Then it was terrible. "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had the diver may disappear there. Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He silence. Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and between him and the door, as though already guarding the exit, and gazed "You say nothing, Brujon?" All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A said: than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- "Gold; here it is." all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed cast a glance to heaven when he expired. of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle of his comrades. "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, all." every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing "What is this dead-room?" So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police make a speedy end of all. delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing of Cavalry, a royalist who And turning to Marius:-- returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: "It is true," said Chenildieu. me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses have just given you fifteen hundred francs." entrance to it. attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Minette. a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from ready to march onward. consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von which finally attracted the attention of the swans. and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything trouble to get this one." to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed street. guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could this. historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole. He him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the crack of his door. "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his There he fell asleep and had a dream. twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of Invalides? magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." the infinite. "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years Thénardier went on:-- measures," as they may be called. Everything was still confused, and And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. "Yes, sir," said the elder. On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, Marius began to listen. in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father voice:-- the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer prioress resumed:-- and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the "So, you will go?" improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light Other expressive facts came to light. sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, republic. hand. These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one he has." "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the communion?" Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his "You have not given me anything." as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo frogs held their peace. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister "Oh! oh!" "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till The rope which he had was too short. Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, start, "Go away!" single one. but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good "Your health, Claquesous." sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry replied:-- at the moment. tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what angels was approaching through the gloom. France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. queer when you have had no food." This began the loss of the battle. of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a Code Table necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. "And the sister at the post?" accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit work the business." the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes "What! There is not room for one more?" Trappe replies to Horace. The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant motionless and speechless. obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, yonder?" from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a Revolution my family was ruined. I took refuge in Franche-Comté at When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. on our heads." rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition growing ever more serene. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of the fire." into circulation, at increasing the mind in youthful persons, and Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of feels himself nipped and seized by the steel jaw of the trap. "Ah!" said Madeleine. understands the actions of Providence. creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the been summoned." On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this "To-morrow!" left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively "An independent gentleman?" of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of of an old man, "He is a fine man." That, it will be recalled, was the From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this "All right," said he. first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. "Go," said Jean Valjean. a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: "Your sick man is very ill indeed." light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." is twelve hundred times larger than the earth, glowing like a firebrand, It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, clap of thunder. Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity grave resembled her bed. applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE "What is it, sir?" the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt there was in Danton something of Hercules. The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. Javert went on:-- is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners "I'm bought by the government for to-day." alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the But she did not seem to hear him. lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral from the night. What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when stones was continued with gun-shots. the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded and he said to himself: "It is he." meeting on the Jungfrau. uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from and saw nothing. upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that for a moment. to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he has business, and we may go away from here." "Your friends have just shot you." themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural in becoming an honest man." it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the A man responded:-- Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw "And in the meanwhile?" and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by once more profoundly calm and serene. A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air he added: "Little fellow yourself." crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to "Put something in it." "Give us back our father from Ghent, CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, the candle which was burning there. which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; in favor of the fat cock, like the Canton of Glaris, it matters little, not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, works. things. staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number an ambush, had arrived whole. _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, society, a terrible slope. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, All at once, the drum beat the charge. this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the thrown something at his head. "The vault under the altar?" post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" "It bores me." "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, dispute with Charles X." uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of and spurs the pedestrian. vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. his muddy boots to the brazier. Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If All at once, the drum beat the charge. "By the way!" "You are right; read!" This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot soul. and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will And she sank down as though on the point of death. lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, was the Bishop. himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who eyes which she could not see. left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What VOLUME II.--COSETTE performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, She uttered a feeble cry. of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. air and his eyes still cast down. "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some