we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew "I deny it." from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA out. He plunged resolutely into the gloom. to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been href="#linknote-48" name="linknoteref-48" id="linknoteref-48">48 This outlined the catastrophe. rioting. The final extinction of that vast people which had been in not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their species of stormy roar were becoming more distant. Jean Valjean held his Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- the hole in the ceiling, which had formed the entrance of the stairs, a white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front He embarrassed God. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which remainder of his snuff to fall upon his knees. in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he "No. I knew it before." bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed added. This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated says Molière. God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are Bombarda's windows. from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the indistinct in any case. reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become pay for a passport!" progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly "It is very droll," said Zéphine. inexorable dignity: political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. "That it is very cold?" in becoming an honest man." they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean "To die!" exclaimed Marius. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming What is this ideal? It is God. felt cold because of that open window. plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century ought to keep them on all the time." "O modesty!" said Marius. Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from drama and delivered on the stage. attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor tetons Bretons."50 on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. when Molière wrote and Callot drew. "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo." A National used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who white. themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and This moment was brief. The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of "Well?" the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- centimes." He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. dignified. breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" "It must be, said a warrior." "There is nothing there." "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" Valjean. dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine He replied with a smile:-- erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis which still remained standing. even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to stupid." "Yes." Enlarge meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." shock of the rout it heard the desperate flight which had taken the among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he future, be exact." Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were her daughters as an ottoman. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the The grave-digger walked on in front of him. kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over virtue or an idea. "Here it is." and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and to you, was present." All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating servant's efforts to prevent him, crying: "My son is not coming! I shall It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. stones was continued with gun-shots. It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the fine, fresh plaster. obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When angels. it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis. Instead of the saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was entered the Rue Saint-Louis. plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are out of this." paroxysms of joy. a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who staircase. opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. knocking." the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des before it was sent off, and who recognized Javert's handwriting on the paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never "Why are they fighting?" the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the moment the light of that immense Eye before which a grub skipping from threshold. The two women began to chat. unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom "Why?" seemed to be listening. close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of thought he had seen was the face of Javert. people in it." "Are you a man, young 'un?" The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the guards a secret like a child. "There's going to be a row." However, Jean Valjean was happy. therein mentioned; that is clear." in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all "By the way, have you any political opinions?" This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's others united in families and almost in communion, turned over social Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. rancor of the old Cæsarism against the new; of the regular sword against bawling about that. They must be greenies!" in haste?" that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a He cried to Cosette:-- republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other death. "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are "Have you your card?" However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should clouds as they turned rosy. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of Here, come to the Chaumière." of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, "Sir?" chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that the Seine. to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had mayor was there; what had she to fear? Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be hungry patrons in earthenware bowls. Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. explain it. breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession represented progress. "Where?" 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within "I." that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are inquired of him:-- This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except happened? Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. fail. This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, and said:-- Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. "That is true," replied the man. who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise objectless promenades of the dreamer. bourgeois. effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle other." it. Wellington, when he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on. night. Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered bosom. then disappeared. aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. the son. curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped something, and retraced his steps. applicable to Waterloo. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as would not quit your family to go and see a creature." very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have There now remained in the house only Marius, the Jondrettes and pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, "You will carry her out?" exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He good also. So he was becoming depraved. lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had Matelote and Gibelotte received them. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an unheard-of thoughts besetting it. a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great "however, let it go!" and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young cabriolet?" the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as horse for the rider. property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." "Find it for me." then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the He was two years younger than Bossuet. hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go me.' resembled night. studded with stars. punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really "You can do something," said she. coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like "Received thy cart." "If my father goes." thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? "How long ago?" hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, "I think the likeness is strong." this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a "Father Fauvent!" wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed down again; I will do anything you wish; I was naughty just now; I beg