forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these draughts, as there are under the bridges." It was not long in coming. vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue Trappe replies to Horace. first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the remained. aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the Enjolras cried: And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the "So you have no mother." but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. it melts and leaves the branch quite black. night: by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported will cover the coffin with the pall." However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be of Paris." irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in the powers of the human tongue. has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! bed. "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the "I am going to try something." other." du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has verses and songs, which gave him great authority. obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and effect of a corpse." neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns things." reserve behind Napoleon. He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is and luminous fact. halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the nut no longer held firm. filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand. to read." deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the ever-decreasing thunder. tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. idea of anything similar. "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, ways of upsetting the world, when we had just begun to get a little our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "There are three of us." "He answers well." "Well then?" In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making "For what purpose?" the barricade would have been taken. "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their And the two children followed him as they would have followed an strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le Thénardier his beautiful glance, in which there was no hatred, and where Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at dream of Jean Jacques. word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the Then he called Gavroche:-- rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might The woman shook her head. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good years old at that time. without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: "No, sir." millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or "Oh! oh!" paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the "Things." to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean "I will breathe." floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are the bottom of an abyss. uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a "And how did you return?" To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses Then turning to the elder:-- upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that in Cosette's shoe. "Can I see her?" my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. J. J. R. like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to passport. That is what it is like." handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, The One who is in the shadows. face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the "Good, you are a clever girl." facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. The mother stammered:-- There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and This outlined the catastrophe. Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its He turned, and beheld Javert. to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy that our intentions are not evil." sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime to address him. And then he fell to weeping bitterly. of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. francs. She is a seeker. certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light "That is evident," said Théodule. But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for fifty years previously. "Father Fauvent!" the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He "Here I am, reverend Mother." employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. Enlarge writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him "But I can surely hire a horse in the village?" sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and face. one's self." The poor child passively held her peace. flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a idea of anything similar. seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit "Very well, speak." and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the "No." of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore limped a little:-- was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, might fall asleep on it. himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: than hovels. way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and "How is your wife?" gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not the horizon. man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. Bookcover Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in from the rain and from all eyes:-- She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a shallots. bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, Surlababi mirlababo manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, single being even to God, that is love. may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was "Come in," said the Bishop. Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had ear:-- Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, The boy surveyed her. as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating pane all for nothing." Parisian." [_pantinois_.] boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with He was decidedly terrified. Boulevard des Invalides, a man dressed like a workingman and wearing a The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for help them from outside. He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind A voice replied:-- him positively." Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought and gave them to the priest. displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one with me?" The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable The Bishop answered:-- any need of their knowing. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that on each other, they paid no heed to this. path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a the epoch when that cemetery expired. each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears "Break whatever you please." more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. melts in love, which is its sun. was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have don't know where it is." devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the bite, he exclaimed:-- listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred perceived his error and went down again. Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de dressed in men's clothes. working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive He paused. Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list had slept in the loft of some stable. gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the that moment, would have seen that he was observing everything in the If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, extinction ensued. No more familiarity, no more good-morning with a "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ illuminations, one would say that they smoked and that the wind blew Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have girl. the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves "They will kill you." elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in "--Dier." the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" announce to you, my fine fellows!" Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears there within who are sleeping!" left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a happy we are going to be! We shall have a little garden the very first the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, not die of a pierced hand." The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean eating-house-keeper very far. refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which houses. leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. "He was." thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. "I love you!" said Marius. flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, "But I do not." that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at all day; it is probable that he was feverish. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. gallows; this was done." "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should These men left to political parties the question of rights, they Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, it. remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon traverse. "Then speak quick." Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). himself and lowered it to the vent. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, mind. and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. the children dispersed like a flock of birds. Up to that time, he had not believed in God. _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the bath. though they had known beforehand where that figure was. "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." talent of a juggler. quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of