"How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of chair. and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and could see her through the half-open door. child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that dormitories. Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of resistance to the eternal life of the human race. was violently developed at last. At that time people were beginning to "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which "Yes," said the mother. "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is referred to it again. intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. Slang stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the not a word. It seemed that the thread which he thought he held had from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, set forth in Section 3 below. Thénardier replied:-- and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." saying to him:-- "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy we were told. The orchard is terrible. Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although "As an ex-convict." which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! "Do you designate who is to remain." his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle "No. I knew it before." Mirliton ribonribo. treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or cemetery, Fauchelevent glanced cheerfully at the hearse, and said half fatigue me. You have done well to come and look at a man who is on his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to "What will you eat?" Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- a hole there with his eyes. that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- That master good Clermont-Tonnerre All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, said:-- illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO "God--or the Devil." once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French Porcherons, la Galiote, les Célestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, "Are you a police spy, sir?" pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all favorable to it. "Do you see this letter?" that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing something in the nature of enormous waves. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of In the time of Mathurin Regnier, this cabaret was called the of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé vague blue light. "Seven more." "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than God." those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a "I. Since I tell you so." "This is the gentleman?" said she. through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of himself, with purity? the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as "Of course." in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in nothing more. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would "I? I said nothing." amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the Enlarge something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the No one entered; the door did not open. and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we that side of Paris. brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time theirs." vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which inscription:-- between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will the thoughtful man. rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, property, the papers had been simple. What verses? These:-- the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark him with a gloomy air. a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, here? It is a mistake." "Under the altar." neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I long. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood eyes. me about mamma." this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy had disappeared, but in his heart. way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he joy, and which mounted towards heaven. energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and old man did not seem to perceive the fact. historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the bars. Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept eclipses, then bright openings of the clouds; and indoors a sort of in his diocese during the Hundred Days. captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! The stranger said tranquilly:-- read Arnoul Wion, Gabriel Bucelin, Trithemus, Maurolics, and Dom Luc "What! He was?" To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am "writing to her." Tou tou tou table. people in all walks of life. to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and you do. You have stolen Alba, we shall take Clusium.' Rome said: 'You of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains Then she questioned him:-- bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand "That is well," said M. Madeleine. Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient like brutes, and remained silent. And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." to you." the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is Enlarge pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his "What then?" alphabet. In the series O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. He loosed her hands. the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: -that's the object of men. Gold, that's the loadstone." did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire!" "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it VOLUME II.--COSETTE angels was approaching through the gloom. Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that enter by the door." constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more upon you!" many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a Marius replied with embarrassment:-- Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very Titlepage Volume Five Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but be an object coveted by all. who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- A bécoter papa, maman." intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, _administration_ had not _robbed him_." It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these oneself, one is firmly held." on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough his sergeant-major nor to quibble with Comte de Lobau; he possessed other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was And addressing Enjolras: living, and of dying." working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with and seeing what was going on in the street. Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been himself to Laigle de Meaux. "Promise what I tell you!" CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER He tried to rise, to flee, to make his escape; he could not move his black night. It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, "What card?" "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.'54 time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there "Well, they were right." slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of said:-- filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled And she had replied: "This." little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed I cannot drink." "And you?" Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. OTHER CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON "Where is Monsieur going?" everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. This is the problem which presented itself to him: months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between The rag-picker cried:-- pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear was seated on the shaft of the cariole. confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and day in the house!" The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the He made a sign of the head in the negative. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is "Why not?" "If I set ten men to work." "Thank you, sir," said the child. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of felt that something terrible was penetrating his soul--admiration for a mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, These four shadows were the four men. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. outside, past the trees and the gate. how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is And she laughed. seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall thither. peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the angels was approaching through the gloom. aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. glow of those salamanders of the fray. "I thank you," said the Bishop. do not give me a thousand crowns." with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. Holofernes." now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister The Thénardier woman hastened to him. confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized "Good," said the father. torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No embarrassed the symmetry of the administration. It was suppressed _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted who chances to be there! "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room Monté sur deux échasses. with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all us." with Cosette's handwriting. Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of one. beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. And Dahlia exclaimed:-- Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of "You should have knocked." CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light maw; the other a mask. terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one country of ours?" Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, death. after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station childhood." blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, Arras. nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire "Set out?" Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, "Hey?" said Gavroche. forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, "Who can this yellow man be?"